FACTORS INFLUENCING ADOPTION OF IMPROVED RICE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES BY WOMEN IN CHANCHAGA AND BOSSO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Information Agriculture is the mainstay of Nigeria economy accounting for nearly 40 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and providing employment for the bulk of the labour force (Akande,2000). However, the slow growth of agriculture and food production has resulted into growing food import and food insecurity. This is because, it is dominated by small scale resource poor farmers living in the rural areas ...
Read more