Assessment of the adoption of aquaculture technologies in Niger State, North Central Nigeria
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Date
2012
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A total of 115 respondents were examined through purposive and cross sectional approach using questionnaire in nine Local Government Areas of the state. About 58% of the respondents were small scale fish farmers with annual income from fish farming being in a range of N151,00O0 to N200,000 per annum. Majority of the respondents fell within the age of 31-50 years, civil servants by occupation and mostly having tertiary education. The respondents generally had positive attitude to fish farming with comparatively high rate of awareness in relation to adoption of 14 aquaculture practices under investigation in this study. Inadequate extension education, water scarcity and costly and unaffordable fish feeds were observed as major threats to fish farming in the study area.Page Range
59-66Publisher or University
FISONConference Name
26th Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON)Conference Location
Minna, NigeriaConference Date
28 Nov - 2 Dec 2011Collections