Socio-Economic Determinants of Adoption of Snail Farming Technologies by Small-Scale Farmers in Mbaitolu Local Government Area, Imo State, Nigeria
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The study examined the determinants of adoption of snail farming technologies in Mbaitolu LGA of Imo State. The objective of the study were to describe the socio-economic characteristics of snail farmers; determine the level of adoption of the technology by snail farmers and identify constraints affecting farmers in snail farming technologies adoption. Data were collected with pre-tested questionnaire while a sample size of 106 farmers for the study was purposively selected. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency count, mean and percentages), adoption model (AIETA) and inferential statistics such as multiple regression analysis. The results showed that majority (64.15%) of snail farmers were male. Friends/neighbours (81.13%) was the major source of information on snail farming technologies. The result showed that, of the adoption of the technologies recorded the highest adoption mean score was 5.21. This was followed by the use of perforated drums with mean score of 4.73. The use of water supply 1mx1m cage and sprinkler had adoption mean score of 4.47, 4.41 and 4.35 respectively. Inadequate extension contact, high cost of feed concentrate were some of the problems affecting the adoption of snail farming technologies in the study area. Level of education, income realized, age and farming experience were found to be variables, significantly affecting the level of adoption of snail farming technologies. It was recommended that extension delivery strategies be diversified and strengthened to boost snail farming through enhanced adoption of improved production technologies.
Keywords: (Socio economic, Determinants, Adoption, Snail farming, Technologies)
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