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| Olubanjo, O.O.; Akinleye, S.O.; Balogun, A.M.. |
| This study examines the occupational characteristics and technology options of capture fisheries in Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State. Data were collected from respondents selected randomly from four fishing communities in the local government using questionnaires. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. Most of the respondents are male, aged above 30 and had minimal education. Lagoon fishing is the most common and there was an inverse relationship between fishing water distance and frequency of fisher folk plying the route. Non-motorized fishing technologies were used by most of the respondents. The significant variables in the regression analyses are fixed production costs and high sea fishing. Recommendations centered on... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Fishing technology; Fishing income; Technology use; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54400 |
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| Akinleye, S.O.; Awoniyi, S.M.; Fapojuwo, O.E.. |
| The development of rural areas impacts positively on per capita income and food production. The tier of government entrusted with the responsibility in Nigeria of developing the rural areas has not lived up to expectation in spite of the huge capital investment. This paper identified the root causes behind the failings of the local governments, reviews the performance of the fadama programme and draw on the reasons behind the successes of the latter as a basis for suggestions on how the local government system can be improved. Capacity building at the local level, increased demand for accountability, involvement of private and research bodies in local government activities should be encouraged to enhance rural development. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54397 |
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| Akinleye, S.O.; Rahji, M.A.Y.. |
| Food calorie intake has been found to have a strong empirical linkage with both human health and productivity. In a study to determine the probable influence of price and income changes on the availability of food nutrients to Nigerian households segmented by income, demand elasticities were obtained for survey respondents and the nutritional effects of changes arising from changes in income and prices were computed using both the AIDS methodology and a technique developed by Huang. The findings show that guinea corn is the food that would have the greatest implications for the nutrient status of low income households. Millet, guinea corn and maize and rice, beans and maize respectively are the food items of note for the households whose heads earn average... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Food demand; Income; Almost ideal demand system (AIDS); Nigeria; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10126 |
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| Akinleye, S.O.. |
| The objective of this study was to estimate the efficiency of arable crop farming in Ijebu Division of Ogun State with Ijebu North East and Odogbolu Local Governments selected as the study area. To achieve this objective, primary data were collected with the use of well structured questionnaires from 120 respondents. Of these, 90 were usable for the analyses. Frontier production function was used in analysing the data. The results show that 56 male and 34 female respondents were interviewed, out of which 73 per cent had formal education and 53 per cent had less than 10 years of farming experience. The computed technical efficiency index shows that maize had the highest number of variables with high technical efficiency index. Based on the fact that the... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Technical efficiency; Frontier analysis; Maize; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54403 |
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