Identification Of Constraints And Effective Educational Strategies Influencing The Professional Competencies Of Agricultural Extension Officers

This research work examined the use of cowpea for shito production, to determine the cost of the shito, to access the sensory attribute in terms of the taste, aroma and colour, to determine the overall acceptability of cowpea shito, to bring varieties of shito into the market, to determine the pr…

The study examines the impact of micro-finance credit on the productivity of the agricultural sector from the period 1989-2019 using an annually time series data. Augmented Dickey Fuller was used to test for unit root, Johansen co-integration was used to obtain the order or stationary among varia…

Sugarcane Bagasse is the fibrous residue leftover when sugarcane is squeezed for its juice. Bagasse ash is obtained by subjecting Bagasse to calcinations using furnace. This work is aimed tat using Bagasse Ash as a replacement in the production of concrete. The bagassewas collected from dumped in…

This study was carried out on consumers acceptability on fresh and smoked catfish, using a total of 120 respondents randomly selected from Nsukka, Enugu. The study revealed that most catfish sellers were female, married and young, literates with more than ten years of marketing experiences. About…

Most agricultural innovations were not sustainably adopted due to incompatibility to social and cultural practices. Based on this proposition, this study was designed to analyze the effects of socio-cultural factors on agricultural training programs for farmers by the Benue State Agricultural and…

The study examines the role of commercial banks in Agricultural development in Nigeria, spanning from 1986-2010. The methodology used is ordinary least squares (OLS), using P.C give 8.00 package. The findings from the study support the view that commercial bank loans are not getting to red farmer…

The majority of agricultural producers in Nigeria still use the traditional approach in crop production with technological change very slow and minimal. In view of this, Agricultural Extension Services have been adopted by the government as a major agricultural transformation strategy. Neverthele…

The project dealt on the production of yam flour from yam chips. The yams were peeled and washed, 100grams samples coded sample A to G were subjected to two different drying conditions. Some were dried using the sun drying method while the others were dried through oven drying method kept at cons…

The fresh cassava were sources from Idodo in Nkanu Local Government of Enugu state. The weight of the cassava tuber were taken to be 31.50kg. After peeling and washing, it was divided into two equal parts which was 21.13kg for production of sample A and sample B respectively (edible and textile s…

This project “production of plane mirror using local raw material” is meant to study the possibility of producing plane mirror using sand rich in silica as its major local raw material. Plane mirror is produced by casting one side of a sheet glass. Presently in Nigeria, sheet glass is not used ea…