positioned to understand and adopt innovations that will facilitate productivity and better livelihood as opposed to when we have illiterate participants. These educated farmers will equally be able as opinion leader influence non literate farmers around them.
Table 4: Educational qualification of the household head Education
Cassava
Sorghum
Rice
None
8(13.33)
4(5)
2 (2.5)
Koranic
2(3.33)
4(5)
10(12.5)
Primary
4(6.67)
5(6.25)
12(15.0)
Juninor
14(23.33)
9(11.25)
4(5.0)
Senior secondary
22(36.67)
29(36.26)
17(21.3)
Tertiary
10(16.67)
27(33.75)
33(41.3)
Adult education
-
2(2.50)
2(2.5)
Figures in parentheses are percentages
5.1.5 Household Size of Respondents Finally on socioeconomic characteristics, the household size of the participants as shown in table 5 revealed that 30% of participants in cassava have between 1-5 people in their household, while 25% have between 6-10 people, 20% have 11-15 people and 25% have more than 15 people in their household and the average size for cassava was 7 people per household. On the other hand, for sorghum, about 21% of the participants have 1-5 people in their household while about 34% have 6-10 people in their household, about 24% have 11-15 people in their household while about 21% of the participants in sorghum have over 15 people in their households. The average number of household member was also 7 people. Finally for rice, 20% of the household members have family size of between 1-5, about 31% have family size of between 6-10, and 30% of the participants have family size of 11-15 while about 19% have family size greater than 15 people. On the whole, the average family size for rice participants was 11 people per household. The implication of the fairly large family size is that in some cases where the members are over 18 years old, they could give helping hands in farming particularly during planting, weeding and harvesting of crops.
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