Community Leadership Succession in Fish Farming Festivities for Agricultural Development in Ibi Local Government Area, Taraba State

Abstract

This study is on community leadership succession in fish farming festivities for Agricultural Development in Ibi Local Government Area,  Taraba State. Three specific purposes of the study were stated and transformed into three research questions. Three null hypotheses  were also formulated for the study. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 340 consisting  300 fish farmers and 40 community leaders. Simple random sampling technique was used to get the sample size of 211 using Taro  Yamane’s Formula, which consists of 171 fish farmers and all the 40 community leaders were used because of their manageable size. The  instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled: Community Leadership Succession in Fish Farming Festivities for  Agricultural Development Questionnaire (CLSFFFADQ). This consists of 21 structured items statement. The instrument was validated by  three validates. The instruments were subjected to trial-test using Cronbach Alpha with reliability coefficient of 0.85. The researcher with  the help of two research assistants administered 211 copies of the questionnaire and retrieved all of them for analysis. The data was  analyzed using mean and standard deviation for answering the research questions and t-test for testing the null hypothesis at 0.05 level  of significance. The finding indicates the respondents agreed with the community leadership style in fish farming festivities, provision of  fishing skills to fish farmers, as well as supervision of fish farmers for agricultural development in Ibi Local Government Area, Taraba  State. Recommendations made include: Community Leaders to find a way of involving the government and other stake holders to come  to their aids in improving fish farming in Ibi Local Government area, the fish festivities be organized in such a way that, it can attracts  foreign investors to the area, for high productivity and enhancement of agricultural development.