Daily time-use effectiveness among women farmers in Edo State, Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.52493/j.jaab.2022.2.36Keywords:
Time management, women farmers, labour-saving technologies, reproductive and productive rolesAbstract
Women farmers tend to have busy daily activity profile and their effectiveness with the use of time resources is in doubt. This study assessed the daily time-use effectiveness and constraints to time use among women farmers in Edo State, Nigeria. Multi-stage procedure; comprising purposive and simple random sampling techniques was used to select 120 women farmers from the three agricultural zones in Edo State, Nigeria. Data were collected using structured questionnaires administered through interview schedules and described with frequency, percentages and mean count while Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used to analyse data. Findings show that the majority of women farmers were married (90.8%), more had primary education (34.1%), and about 55.8% earned < N100,000 per annum. Wide gaps existed between the time expected to accomplish tasks and the actual time used (±). Respondents perceived higher effective time-use for more reproductive than productive activities ( ≥ 2.50). Age (r = 0.309; p = 0.000), income (r = 0.267; p = 0.002), household size (r = –0.351;p=0.000) and social association membership (r = –0.103; p = 0.043) were the identified correlates of effectiveness in time use. Constraints to time-use effectiveness included inadequate capital ( = 3.50), dearth of labour-saving technologies ( = 3.34) and gender stereotyping ( = 3.32). Development, dissemination and adoption of affordable time and labour-saving technologies could enhance the time-use effectiveness of women farmers.
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