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Item Determinants of value addition to cassava in Kwara State, Nigeria.(University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius., 2016) Falola, A.; Oyinbo, O.; Adebayo, S. A.; Jonathan, A.; Jimoh, J. O.This study focuses on factors influencing value addition to cassava by farming households in Kwara State, Nigeria. The study emanated from the need to harness the benefits of value addition to cassava in Nigeria, being the world’s largest producer of the crop. Data were collected from 160 cassava farming households through a combination of purposive and random sampling techniques. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and two-stage Heckman model. Results showed that the farmers were still in their active age, married with an average household size of seven persons. Those who engaged in value addition among the farmers were 37.5%. The products of the value-adders were cassava flakes, flour, cassava paste, cassava chips and starch. Decision to add value to cassava by the farmers was significantly influenced by availability of processing equipment, cassava output, farm size, age and access to extension services. The study further revealed that the extent to which value addition is carried out is influenced by availability of processing equipment, being a female, age and hours spent on non-farm activities. The study therefore recommends encouraging the youths to engage in cassava farming, providing farmers with processing equipment, overhauling extension services and putting measures that will improve farmers’ output in place.Item Technical efficiency of catfish farming in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria: A gender perspective.(Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, 2016) Oyinbo, O.; Mohammed, O. M.; Falola, A.; Saleh, M. K.This research was undertaken to examine the gender perspective of the technical efficiency of catfish farming in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. Primary data elicited from a sample size of 70 catfish farmers (38 male and 32 female catfish farmers) were employed in the study. Analysis of the data was done using descriptive statistics and stochastic frontier production function. The maximum likelihood estimates of the stochastic frontier production function revealed that the mean technical efficiency of the male catfish farmers (86%) was higher than that of the female catfish famers (20%) and this implies that the male and female catfish farmers have the scope of improving their efficiency by 14% and 80%, respectively, through the use of farming practices used by the most efficient male and female catfish farmers. The factors that were significant in influencing the technical efficiency of the female catfish farmers were farming experience and credit while in the case of the male catfish farmers, farming experience significantly influenced their technical efficiency. In the light of the low technical efficiency of the female catfish farmers relative to the male catfish farmers, it was recommended that gender equality infishery training, extension delivery, distribution of resources and access to supportive services should be encouraged in a bid to improve the technical efficiency of the catfish farmers especially that of the female catfish farmers.