Attitude of rural women farmers towards entrepreneurship information in Akinyele Local Government Area Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study was designed to investigate the attitude of rural women farmers towards entrepreneurship information in Akinyele Local Government area Oyo state. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select the200 respondents with the aid of well structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data while chi-square was used to analyze the hypothesis. The study reveals that majority of the respondents’ belonged to young age group 31-40 years and majority (85.5%) of them are married with household size of 5-8 persons. Results show that the mean score for attitude towards entrepreneurship development is very high with 69.5% and the mean index (4.12). This means that rural women farmers have a good and encouraging attitude towards entrepreneurship. The study also reveals that the attitude of rural women farmers towards developing farm entrepreneurship skills is very favourable in the study area. It also explains that most of the respondents get all their entrepreneurial information from different sources. The chi square result shows that there is significant relationship between marital status, education, religion, household size and attitude towards entrepreneurship information. The study therefore recommended that the various tiers of government should create programs that will catalyze entrepreneurial development with special focus on women in the rural areas.

Keywords: Attitude, Rural, Women farmers, Entrepreneurial information