Analysis of the determinants of plantain supply by smallholder farmers in Osun State, Nigeria.

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dc.contributor.authorOjediran, E. O.
dc.contributor.authorAdewumi, M. O.
dc.contributor.authorFalola, A.
dc.contributor.authorIbrahim, H. K.
dc.contributor.authorBelewu, K. Y.
dc.contributor.authorOyedeji, O. A.
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-15T10:43:00Z
dc.date.available2019-10-15T10:43:00Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis study analyzed the determinants of supply among plantain farmers in Osun State, Nigeria. A four-stage sampling technique was adopted for this study. The first stage involved a purposive selection of Ife Agricultural zone due to its high plantain production and marketing activities in the area. The second stage involves the random selection of Ife North and Ife South Local Government Areas (LGAs) from the four LGAs that make up the Agricultural zone. The third stage involved the random selection of six) villages from each of the selected local governments making a total of 12 villages. Thereafter, 10 plantain farmers were randomly selected from each of the 12 villages. In all, 120 farmers were used for the study and data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Ordinary Least Square Regression model. The results of the study revealed that 69.2% of the sampled farming household heads were male. The significant factors influencing the decision to supply plantain in the study area were distance to market, current market price, household size, quantity processed and farm size. The current price of plantain, quantity processed and farm size were positively significant suggesting a direct relationship while household size and distance to market were found to be negatively significant suggesting an inverse relationship with supply. It is therefore recommended that farmers should be encouraged to increase the supply of plantain by providing adequate and easy means of processing and disposing their product to curb loss as well as making up a centralised price both at the farm-gate level and at the market.en_US
dc.identifier.citation4. Ojediran, E. O., Adewumi, M. O., Falola, A., Ibrahim, H. K., Belewu, K. Y. & Oyedeji, O. A. (2018): Analysis of the determinants of plantain supply by smallholder farmers in Osun State, Nigeria. Agrosearch, 18(1):15-24. Published by the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Available at https://www.ajol.info/index.php/agrosh/article/view/176099/165499.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2525
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorinen_US
dc.subjectDeterminantsen_US
dc.subjectplantainen_US
dc.subjectfactorsen_US
dc.subjectsupplyen_US
dc.titleAnalysis of the determinants of plantain supply by smallholder farmers in Osun State, Nigeria.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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