Author
Listed:
- Aribifo, D. L.
- Alabi, D. L.
- Famakinwa, M.
Abstract
The paper examined the perception of NYSC members in Oyo and Osun States towards involvement in agricultural entrepreneurship. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 185 serving corps members that belong to agro-allied Skill Acquisition Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) group from two Local Governments Areas (LGAs) each from the selected States. Quantitative data were collected on the respondents’ socioeconomic characteristics; major agricultural enterprises they were involved in and the agripreneurial characteristics they possessed using semi structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using descriptive (frequency counts, percentages, means and standard deviation) and Inferential (Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Chi-square) statistics. Results showed that respondents had a mean age of 26 years, 85.4%were single and 75.7% were not graduates of agriculture. Commitment (̅= 3.50), innovativeness (̅= 3.47), initiative (̅= 3.45)and creativity (̅= 3.39) were the major agripreneurial characteristics possessed by the respondents. Respondents were involved in different agricultural enterprises of their choices namely poultry (7.6%), crop farming (6.5%), fish farming (6.5 %), vegetable farming (5.9%), Snail farming (1.1 %).Most(61.1%) of the respondents had a positive perception about youth involvement in agricultural entrepreneurship. Further result showed that that there was no significant relationship between the respondents’ perception towards involvement in agripreneurship and their age, household size, years of practical agricultural experience, cosmopoliteness and income. Majority (61.1%) of the respondents had a positive perception about youth involvement in agricultural entrepreneurship. It was concluded from the study that majority of the corps members in the study areas were favourably disposed towards involvement in agricultural entrepreneurship. Based on the findings, it is therefore recommended that any agricultural entrepreneurship programme for corps members should focus on all agricultural enterprises to further boost their potentials in being successful agripreneurs. Corps members should be availed the opportunity of agricultural entrepreneurship training programme with a view to further enhancing their agripreneurial characteristics
Suggested Citation
Aribifo, D. L. & Alabi, D. L. & Famakinwa, M., 2019.
"Youth Corp Members' Perception of Agripreneurship in Oyo and Osun State,"
Nigerian Journal of Rural Sociology, Rural Sociological Association of Nigeria, vol. 19(2), June.
Handle:
RePEc:ags:ngnjrs:347331
DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.347331
Download full text from publisher
Corrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:ngnjrs:347331. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rusanea.html .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through
the various RePEc services.