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SOCIAL DIVERSITY IN SEED YAM PRODUCING COMMUNITIES OF BWARI AREA COUNCIL, FCT ABUJA NIGERIA: A GENDER SITUATION ANALYSES
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This study area was Bwari Area council of FCT Abuja Nigeria, to investigate gender and social diversity issues among seed yam producing communities in the area. A multistage sampling procedure, with the use of purposive and random sampling techniques was employed to select 270 seed yam farmers belonging to three gender groups. Focus group discussions (FGD) and interviews of group leaders as key informants, using different check lists were carried out to elicit information relating to gender roles in seed yam production, decision taking, access and control over resources, yam varietal preferences and constraints to seed yam production in the study area and descriptive statistics used to analyse the responses. The result shows that all the genders groups were involved in seed yam production. However, their levels of involvement and roles differ; influenced by social and religious inclinations. Men, women and youths perform roles that are categorized into dominant, minor, complimentary and some cases, no roles. Men dominate critical roles in farm site selection, access and control of money, women do much of the labour such as hand weeding and fertilizer application, youths were more inclined to performing activities that require physical strength. Gender issues in seed yam production therefore, are important for enhanced productivity and livelihoods of the farmers in the face of social diversity existing within and among communities.
