Keywords
diversification strategies
agricultural livelihood
self-care
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Abstract
The study examined the agricultural livelihood diversification strategies for self-care among female youth farmers in Kaduna South Local Government area of Kaduna State. The specific objectives were to: examine the extent of female youth diversification strategies in agricultural livelihood activities in the study area; examine the extent of use of livelihood income on female youths’ self-care, and determine the factors influencing categories of livelihood diversified among the female youths in the study area. A multi-staged sampling procedure was used in selecting 131 respondents and primary data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and Tobit regression model were used for data analysis. The results showed that 44.0% of female youth were engaged in processing and value addition activities while 21.2% of them were engaged in production activities and about (48.0%) of them were engaged in more than one livelihood activities. The findings further revealed that livelihood diversification strategies were influenced by level of education (2.550), agricultural experience (0.001) and number of livelihood activities (0.626) among others. Thus, the study recommends that government and private organization should provide financial support and entrepreneurial training to female youth to boost their capacity to diversify to more and better livelihood activities, thereby keeping them away from youth restiveness
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