Cassava Farmer Essay

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 RESULT AND DISCUSSION
4.1 SOCIO ECONOMIC CHARATERICTICS OF THE RESPONDENTS The frequency and percentage distribution of some important variables are presented in this section; these variables include sex, age, marital status, household size, farming experience, main occupation, educational level, mode of land acquision, crop grown, farm size, source of capital etc.
4.1.0: Sex of cassava farmer
One hundred and fifty, (150) question items was produced. These were administered to respondents and only 80% of the questionnaires were returned since the respondents were not able to answer them in the field. This showed that 80% of the sampled

4.3: Bar graph of number of years spent in farming activities
4.1.2 Marital Status of Cassava farmers
Majority of the cassava farmers (63.85%) are married, while the remaining 36.15% are either single, divorces or widow/ widower. This implies that sizeable numbers of the farmers are likely to have their spouses rendered assistance on the farm. The result is presented in Table 3
Table 4.2 Marital status of cassava farmers
Marital status Frequency Percentage Single 9 7.50
Married 79 63.85
Divorced 17 14.17
Widow/widower 15 12.50
TOTAL 120 100
Source: Researcher’s field work, 2015
4.1.3 Household size of cassava farmers
The household size of cassava base farmers in the study area ranges from 0 – 19 as shown in Table 4 below. This indicates that cassava base farmer in the study area have large household size. House hold size of 7 - 12 represents the highest percentage with 62.5, distantly followed by household size of 0 – 6 with percentage of 32.5. This gives the likelihood that the house holds member provides labour for the