Analysis of Poverty Status of Ebonyi State Farming Households
Poverty is a major menace in Nigeria. Therefore, the research centered on the analysis of poverty status of farming households in Ebonyi State. Multi stage and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 450 respondents for the study. Primary data were collected using electronic data captu...
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| author | Ogechi Cordelia Nwahia Benjamin Ahmed Edwin Onyeabor Stanley Balogun |
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| description | Poverty is a major menace in Nigeria. Therefore, the research centered on the analysis of poverty status of farming households in Ebonyi State. Multi stage and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 450 respondents for the study. Primary data were collected using electronic data capturing instrument containing the questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Foster, Greer and Thorbeecke (FGT), and Logit regression model. The result from the study shows that 54% of the farming households in Ebonyi state were poor while 46% of them were not poor. The result further reveals that household size, dependency ratio, sex, monthly household expenditure, and farm size were the significant factors that influenced poverty status of Ebonyi state farming households. Therefore, government at the federal, state and local levels should consider socioeconomic characteristics of the farming households in the design and implementation of any poverty driven projects in order to improve their standard of living. Also, government at the various level, should consider embarking on programs to address the youth unemployment and aged members of the Nigerian society for these will reduce the dependency burden which have continued to increase the poverty level in farming households in Ebonyi state. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fada0c8fbcb8421b9f4ae903843d552b2025-08-20T03:25:57ZengHasan EleroğluTurkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology2148-127X2021-07-01961208121410.24925/turjaf.v9i6.1208-1214.40472126Analysis of Poverty Status of Ebonyi State Farming HouseholdsOgechi Cordelia Nwahia0Benjamin Ahmed1Edwin Onyeabor2Stanley Balogun3Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University, ZariaDepartment of Agricultural Economics, Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University, ZariaDepartment of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ebonyi State University, AbakakiliDepartment of Agricultural Economics, Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, KadunaPoverty is a major menace in Nigeria. Therefore, the research centered on the analysis of poverty status of farming households in Ebonyi State. Multi stage and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 450 respondents for the study. Primary data were collected using electronic data capturing instrument containing the questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Foster, Greer and Thorbeecke (FGT), and Logit regression model. The result from the study shows that 54% of the farming households in Ebonyi state were poor while 46% of them were not poor. The result further reveals that household size, dependency ratio, sex, monthly household expenditure, and farm size were the significant factors that influenced poverty status of Ebonyi state farming households. Therefore, government at the federal, state and local levels should consider socioeconomic characteristics of the farming households in the design and implementation of any poverty driven projects in order to improve their standard of living. Also, government at the various level, should consider embarking on programs to address the youth unemployment and aged members of the Nigerian society for these will reduce the dependency burden which have continued to increase the poverty level in farming households in Ebonyi state.http://www.agrifoodscience.com/index.php/TURJAF/article/view/4047factorspovertyfarming householdsfostergreer and thorbeecke (fgt)logit regression model |
| spellingShingle | Ogechi Cordelia Nwahia Benjamin Ahmed Edwin Onyeabor Stanley Balogun Analysis of Poverty Status of Ebonyi State Farming Households Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology factors poverty farming households foster greer and thorbeecke (fgt) logit regression model |
| title | Analysis of Poverty Status of Ebonyi State Farming Households |
| title_full | Analysis of Poverty Status of Ebonyi State Farming Households |
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| title_short | Analysis of Poverty Status of Ebonyi State Farming Households |
| title_sort | analysis of poverty status of ebonyi state farming households |
| topic | factors poverty farming households foster greer and thorbeecke (fgt) logit regression model |
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