Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 16 ISSUE 4
Written by Abdulhameed A. GIREI, Nafisat H. SULEIMAN, Susana B. OHEN

The study was carried out to investigate the relationship between socio-economic variables and rural women participation in yam production in Gwagwalada Area Council, FCT Abuja, Nigeria. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select a sample of one hundred and fifty (150). Data was collected through the use of interview schedule and analyzed using descriptive statistics and logistic regression. Result showed that 43.3% of respondents were between the ages of 21 and 30 years. Most of the respondents were married (74.5%) with 70% of respondents having farm size of two (2) hectares. About 45% of respondents have no formal education. The result of logit analysis showed that farm size positively affected the participation of women in yam production. The Negalkerke R square was found to be 0.081. This indicates that 8.11% of the variation in the women participation in yam production in the study area is accounted for by the explanatory variables included in the model. Also, the chi- square analysis gave a value of 6.464 which is significant at 10% level of probability. The study recommended that Stakeholders should help in the provision of simple labour saving technologies that could reduce manual labour and energy sapping of the farmers. Government and relevant stakeholders should establish schemes that will enable women have easy access to land and other essential inputs. Credit facilities should also be made available and at affordable rates. Also, processing equipment and storage facilities should be developed and provided to the farmers to minimize waste and losses.

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