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Determinants of Farmers’ Utilization of Post-Harvest Management Practices in Rice-Producing Areas of Abia State, Nigeria
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The socio-economic determinants of farmers’ utilization of post-harvest management practices in rice producing areas (Ikwuano and Unuahia North Local Government Areas) of Abia State, Nigeria was studied and analysed in 2023. The study adopted a multistage random sampling procedure to select 90 rice farmers for the study. Data for the study were collected with the aid of a structured questionnaire and analysed using both descriptive and multiple regression analysis. Result revealed that 72.22% of the rice farmers were males, 62.22% acquired secondary education having a mean household size is 6 persons with mean annual farm income of N853, 978.00 and annual non-farm income (N515, 224) as against 5,33 years membership of social organization. Result showed that farmers had high utilization and constraints to rice post-harvest management practices, with mean scores of 2.7. Multiple regression result showed that the coefficients for sex (β=0.0157), education (β=0.0126), social organization (β=0.0173) and farm income (β=0.0165) were determinants of utilization of post-harvest management practices by farmers. The study concluded that farmers had high utilization of post-harvest management practices. The study recommended that rice farmers should belong to cooperative groups, engage in literacy and training programmes in order to benefit from the use of appropriate post-harvest management practices involved in rice production in the study area.
