Study on status of diary keeping in knowledge creation process by women farmers in Sabon Gari Local Government, Kaduna State-Nigeria

Abstract

study was conducted to find out the status of diary keeping in knowledge creation process by women farmers in Sabon–Gari Local Government Area. To achieve the objective of the study three objectives were formulated with respect to the understanding of the types of diaries exposed to women farmers in the local government area, the types of media used by women farmers in conducting diary and the types of information captured by the women farmers in their diaries. . The research methodology adopted was quantitative with survey research design approach for data collection for the study. The universe of the study comprised of all the women farmers in Sabon–Gari local government area, which according to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Local Government there are 709 registered women farmers in the area. Using purposive sampling techniques the sample size of 178(25%) of the women farmers was used for data collection. Questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection, and the data collected were quantified and analyzed using frequency counts, percentages and discussion. Findings from the analysis revealed that the women farmers in the local government are keeping diary for documenting of their ideas, experiences and thought about their farming business as their knowledge base. The study indicated that the women farmers of the area are using paper base method (paper book) as the media in which they document and preserved their knowledge. The study recommends among others, that the Kaduna State Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development should encourage and support training of information communication technologies for women farmers, in order to ease and enhanced their diary keeping method in the process of generating and transfer of knowledge among themselves.