Factors Militating Against Full Adoption of Hermetic Storage Structures At All Levels Of Cereal Grain/Pulses Storage in a Developing Economy
Journal Title: International Journal of Engineering and Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 8
Abstract
This paper evaluates the prospects and factors militating against the full adoption of hermetic storage structures at all levels of cereal grain/pulses storage in Minna, Nigeria. This is aimed at encouraging the use of hermetic storage structures in the developing countries, and to ensure the reduction of enormous storage losses still recorded in this sector hitherto. To carry out this purported evaluation the protocol entailed, a pre- data survey, carried out to identify the factors militating against the adoption of hermetic storage structures. A multi-stage non-proportional stratified sampling was carried out on 300 respondents in 50 communities in Minna and its surrounding towns, with elevator factor 10 and sampling factor 0.1. The result revealed that the most predominant grain storage structure used presently for threshed form of grain storage is poly propylene bags at 71.1% which are non-hermetic in nature, traditional mud rhombus storage structure at 28.8% and hermetic storage structures at 1.3%. It also revealed that the factors militating against full adoption of hermetic storage structures are non-availability at 88.18%, the fear of farmers to experiment with their crops and lack of adequate and proper introduction of the technology/ storage structures to farmers are at 5.7% and 3.04% respectively. There is no significant relationship between farmer’s age, income and the use of recommended technology (p˂0.05). There is a significant relationship between non-avaliabity and cost of the hermetic storage structures, farmer’s fear of experimenting with their crops and lack of adequate Government extension agents in introducing this technology/structures (p˃0.05). An adequate, efficient, effective, participatory methodology by independent and Government Agricultural extension agents to drive home this technology and enable farmers get the full reward of their labour.
Authors and Affiliations
Okolo C. A. , Chukwu O . , Adejumo B. A. , Haruna S. A. , Madu U
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