Effect of Education and Gender on Farm Productivity of Cocoa Farmers in Nigeria.

B.Ed. Abdulmolik Owolabi Awwal, BSc

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Education and equal opportunity for different gender is expected to increase managerial skills, labour productivity, capital utilization and access to information that will lead to the adoption of agricultural innovation with comparative advantages that will turn to increase agricultural productivity. The objective of the study was to assess the effect of education and gender on cocoa farmers’ productivity. The questionnaire survey was conducted with 120 cocoa farmers of Ondo State, Nigeria using purposive and convenient sampling methods. Multiple linear regression and t-tests were used for the analysis. The result revealed that there is no productivity difference between the cocoa farms managed by male and female farmers. The results further show that education affects the farmer’s farm productivity positively as it affects both the farm yield and farm income. This indicates the importance of giving priority to farmers with a low level of education via extension programme design to reduce the productivity inequality between farmers with low and high level of education that will facilitate access to agricultural information, capital such as credit, land and other agricultural inputs as well as resource utilization and farm management policies.

Keywords

farm income, cocoa farmers, education, gender, Nigeria, Farm yield

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 15. 8. 2022

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Miroslava Bavorová, Ph.D.
• Reader: Sven Gruener, externi

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences

Master programme:
Agri-food Systems and Rural Development