Binary logit analysis of social-economic variables and youth participation in agriculture

Falaye, Adebanjo Joseph and Ake, Modupe and Ogadimma, Chukwubueze, Arisukwu and Eseyin, Oluwasegun and Asamu, Festus and DIARAH, Ifeyiwa Sandra (2023) Binary logit analysis of social-economic variables and youth participation in agriculture. Jilin Daxue Xuebao (Gongxueban)/Journal of Jilin University), 42 (3). pp. 324-334. ISSN 1671-5497

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Abstract

On a large scale albeit due to conflicts, climate change, acts of terrorism in Sub-Sahara Africa and some other peculiar factors the oddities of food shortage and hunger keep rising in recent years; making it an issue of global concern. To ameliorate the situation, successive governments in Nigeria have invested tremendously in agriculture but to no avail. Making the situation worse is the fact that young people that would have embraced technology in farming are seemingly not seeing desired results; hence they abstain and prefer to seek new ways of sustenance. The general opinion is that youths of this prefer white collar jobs to farming. It is in view of the above reasons that this study chose to investigate factors that could motivate Nigerian youths into agriculture. Hence, we decided to use frequencies, percentage counts, and binary logit to analyse data. Findings are that youths’ involvement in agriculture is over 90%. Age, marital status, and level of education all play some role in who participates in agriculture. The results show that publicity of government pro-youths’ agro-allied programmes and the availability of fertile land would more than all the other tested factors influence youths’ involvement in agriculture. Hence, the government is better informed to properly channel public fund.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	food, hunger, logistic, variables, probit
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User:	Dr Adebanjo Joseph Falaye
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2023 11:55
Last Modified:	20 Apr 2023 11:55
URI:	https://eprints.lmu.edu.ng/id/eprint/3942

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