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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Three out of four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, with majority relying, either directly or indirectly on agriculture for livelihood (World Bank, 2007). Suffice it to state that agriculture remains the main source of income for around 2.5 billion people in the developing […]
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important food and cash crop in the world. It feeds more than half of the world’s population (Ojohomon, 1995). The world grows 153.8 million hectares of rice annually with average worldwide yield of 3,885 kg/ha. This gives a production of […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study According to Ayoade (2006), climate is the mean state of atmosphere of an area over a defined period of 30 years, while climate change as defined by Anon (2009) is long term significant environmental changes in the average weather that a given region experiences. Average weather includes […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Education, skills development and life-long learning are central pillars for job performance of educated and trained individuals who teach school subjects including agricultural science who become professional teachers. A profession is connected with any prestige holding occupation that needs special occupational training. Teaching as a profession requires the […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Agricultural science is not a new subject in the Nigerian secondaryschool curriculum.Okeh (2006) reports that agricultural science was introduce as a secondary school subject in 1967, and since then, teaching of the subject in the schools has undergone a reform through the Nigerian Policy on Education (NPE). […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study In recent years, attention has been drawn to the need to improve the business environment for agriculture to become more successful by gradually shifting from subsistence to commercial agriculture. Commercial transformation of subsistence agriculture is an indispensable pathway towards the development of the agricultural sector of any […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Issue of academic job efficiency among academic staff especially academic staff in colleges of education northwest, Nigeria is of much concern. This is because of the demand placed on them of producing Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) graduates who will meet the demand of labour market in […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODCUTION 1.1 Background to the Study Education, skills development and life-long learning are central pillars for job performance of educated and trained individuals who teach school subjects including agricultural science who become professional teachers. A profession is connected with any prestige holding occupation that needs special occupational training. Teaching as a profession requires […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Agriculture is the art and science of growing plants and other crops and the raising of animals for food, other human needs, or economic gain (Ogieva, 2003). Agriculture contributes to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), exports, generation of employment with high potentials to reduce poverty being the […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background information Agriculture occupies an important and central position in the economies of African countries. Indeed, it is the basis of livelihood and development for all mankind especially in developing countries where the majority of the population still depends on it as a main source of income (Amalu, 1998). More than […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1 .I Background Information Nigeria, though endowed with abundant human, capital and natural resources and in spite of her oil revenue has remained one of the poorest countries in the world. Various national and international bodies have documented this high incidence of poverty. The Federal Offce of Statistics (FOS, 1999) and the […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Education is a way through which young and old members of the society are taught about the expected behaviour of the society and the rules of polity, the values, skills, attitudes and knowledge that equip the individual to achieve personal and societal development and progress, Ozigi (2008). […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study One major problem confronting world peace today is the manifestation of conflicts in different dimensions across the globe. From Europe to America, Africa to Asia, conflicts are common phenomena (Marshall and Gurr, 2005 in Jeong, 2008). Conflict has been defined in different ways by different scholars. For […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Credit is an instrument whose effectiveness depends on the economic and financial policies that go with it (Nwaru, 2004). The demand for credit has increased as a result of increased economic activities in the informal sector (Tra and Lensink, 2004). Credit availability to agriculture is justified when […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Issue of academic job efficiency among academic staff especially academic staff in colleges of education northwest, Nigeria is of much concern. This is because of the demand placed on them of producing Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) graduates who will meet the demand of labour market in […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Background of the Study The efficiency of agricultural and food marketing systems in the economic development has not been given adequate attention which seems to be true to Kenya and many other developing countries. There have also been relative neglects of the agricultural marketing system in research and planning (Wambugu, […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the land and rearing of animals for the purpose of providing food for man, feed for animals and raw materials for the manufacturing industries. Agriculture is part of the culture of Nigerians this is because young people are informally […]
EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN COCOA PRODUCTION ON FARMERS LIVELIHOOD IN EMURE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EKITI STATE NIGERIA CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Nigeria is one of the countries in Africa that has highly diversified agroecological conditions, which makes the production of a wide range of agricultural products possible. Agriculture is a potentially […]
THE EFFECTS OF BROILER PRODUCTION ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Broiler industry is one of the profitable agro-industries which can effectively tackle the problems of unemployment and underemployment in the rural areas, particularly of small and marginal farmers. Broiler industry can be adopted under a wide range of climatic conditions and can generally […]
EFFECTS OF MICROCREDIT ON CROP FARM HOUSEHOLDS IN EKITI STATE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study About 805 million people throughout the world and particularly in developing countries do not have enough food to meet their basic nutritional needs (FAO,2014).Even though food supplies have increased substantially the following factors prevent basic food needs […]