AKSU Journal of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development
ISSN(Online): 2736-0040 ISSN(Print): 2695-1975
ISSN(Online): 2736-0040 ISSN(Print): 2695-1975
Abstract
The study analyzed poverty status among rural farm households in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Primary data used for the study were derived from a three-stage sampling survey of 200 randomly selected farming households in 8 farming communities. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Forster-Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) poverty model and Logit model. The results for the socio-economic showed that majority (84.5%) of the household head were male and were aged between 30-40 years with a mean of 39.645 years. About 77.5% of the respondents were married and their mean household size was 7 persons with a mean farming experience of 16.3 years and 48 percent of the household head had no formal education. 95.5% of the respondents had no access to credit facility and were not members of cooperative society. About 96% of the respondents were into crop farming as a primary occupation, and 84% of respondents were non-poor, 15% moderately poor, and 1% were core poor. The poverty incidence, depth and severity were 0.16, 0.08 and 0.05 respectively among the rural farm households. The determinants of poverty include: farm size, gender and monthly income of household’s head which were positively related to households’ poverty status while household size was inversely related to poverty status. Hence, credit should be made available to farmers. In addition, farmers should be encouraged to join cooperative societies as it could help in input acquisition and enhance their production capacity.