Interventions and Women Agricultural Productivity in Benue State, Nigeria

Ehigocho Peace Aimua; Ilemona Adofu; Joseph Okwori

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Interventions and Women Agricultural Productivity in Benue State, Nigeria

Ehigocho Peace Aimua, Ilemona Adofu, Joseph Okwori

Published in International Journal of Agricultural Economics (Volume 9, Issue 1)

Received: 31 October 2023 Accepted: 5 December 2023 Published: 18 January 2024

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This study investigates the effect of interventions on women agricultural productivity in Benue State, Nigeria. The study employs a robust ordinary least square (OLS) regression model to analyse this relationship using a cross-sectional data obtained from a sample of 421 women participating in agriculture drawn from eight local government areas in Benue State. The result of the analysis revealed that interventions such as training, credit, seedlings, pesticides, tools and machineries had no significant effect on women agricultural productivity in Benue State. Similarly the result showed that, the percentage share of female labour in agricultural activities had no effect on women’s agricultural productivity. However, years of education, farm size and age of the respondents were found to have a significant effect on women agricultural productivity in the study area. The findings of this study reveal that, present intervention approach does not impact women agricultural productivity in any form in Benue State. Hence, a better intervention approach that enables women to have access to more farm lands and other productive resources should be incorporated. Furthermore, interventions strategies that will encourage girl child education and adult education for women mostly in the rural areas should be prioritized by government and non-government agencies. The findings of this study are relevant in understanding the effect of interventions and the type of interventions that should be delivered.

Published in	International Journal of Agricultural Economics (Volume 9, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijae.20240901.13
Page(s)	16-29
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Women, Intervention, Agricultural Productivity, Benue State

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Aimua EP, Adofu I, Okwori J. Interventions and Women Agricultural Productivity in Benue State, Nigeria. Int J Agric Econ. 2024;9(1):16-29. doi: 10.11648/j.ijae.20240901.13

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Ehigocho Peace Aimua

Department of Economics, Federal University of Lafia, Lafia, Nigeria

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Department of Economics, Federal University of Lafia, Lafia, Nigeria
Joseph Okwori

Department of Economics, Federal University of Lafia, Lafia, Nigeria

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