Processors add value to agricultural produce to compete favourably in open markets and derive maximum benefits. Value Addition (VA) towards enhancing derivable benefits in locally produced rice is particularly important ...

In Nigeria, demand for tomato exceeds its domestic supply and only about 50 percent of total production reaches the market due to postharvest loss. This causes scarcity, price inflation and importation of tomato products. ...

The challenge of extension service delivery in the contemporary world requires the use of versatile tools like the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Effective use of ICT tools for extension service delivery ...

Susceptibility to infectious diseases and paediatric blindness is a huge public health burden among children in rural Nigeria. This condition could be linked to Vitamin A (VA) deficiency due to poor nutritional behaviour ...

Youths constitute more than half of the Nigerian populace with strong potential for economic and social development. Nevertheless, due to widespread unemployment and underemployment, their potential to contribute to national ...

Nigeria is the world’s largest cassava producer, but most of the smallholderproducers recurrently face product glut. Outgrower scheme is often deployed to serve as a link between producers and users of agricultural commodities ...

Infrastructural development such as health facilities, roads, communication facilities and irrigation facilities promotes rural livelihood activities and impacts on Socio-Economic Status (SES) of rural dwellers. Over the ...

The quality of processed rice is optimised by processing techniques used. It also impacts on the efficiency differentials among processors when paddy is transformed into edible rice. However, information on the nexus between ...

Labour market participation, alongside unregulated rural sector wage policy could diminish the welfare of household heads and their members in rural areas of Nigeria. Evidence is scanty on the effect of labour market wage ...

Agricultural development depends to a large extent on the utilisation of Agricultural Research Outputs (AROs). Several AROs have been generated by Departments in the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Ibadan ...