Figure 9 : Technologies disseminated on rice practiced
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Mode of practicing technologies extended on cassava production Functionality of adopted technology is primarily assessed by the rate of utilization. It is therefore logical that after selecting applicable technologies that could enhance farming productivity and presenting each of these at appropriate time and venues to farmers; it becomes very necessary to ascertain the level or rate of utilization of each of the packages. Therefore, the analysis of the frequency of practicing good agronomic practices delivered to cassava farmers are as presented in table 26 below. From the table, it was found that improved cassava varieties were highly in use by these farmers across the 3 SCPZs as the average weighted score was 4.3 which was by far greater than 3.0 indicating the limit point where the effective usage of this technology begins. For this improved crop varieties, about 64% of the farmers affirmed that they regularly use it, 21% claimed they often use it while about 14% claimed they sometime use it. If we sum these together, we have 100% that were using this particular technology (improve variety) showing that the technology is very popular among the farmers. On site selection, it also has a weighted average score of 3.7 showing that farmers have keyed into this technology. With about 36% of them claiming that, they regularly use this technology, while about 29% claimed they often use it and about 27 claimed they sometime used the technology and only 7% claimed have never. Summing all of these will give us a total of 100%. This is an indication that, this particular technology has been
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