An Assessment of Shea Butter Marketing in Southwestern Nigerian Markets
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Abstract
The study carried out an assessment of Shea butter marketing in Southwestern Nigeria. It specifically examined the socio-economic characteristics of the Shea butter marketers in the study area, determined the profitability of Shea butter marketing and also examined the market structure and conduct for the Shea butter in the study area. A multi- stage sampling technique was used to select 30 Shea butter marketers in the study area and structured questionnaires were administered to them. Descriptive statistics, gross margin and Gini-coefficient techniques were used to analyze the data collected. The study showed that 80 % of the respondents belong to the active segment of the population while the remaining 20 % were older than 50 years. Analysis also revealed that Shea butter market was dominated by the retailers which accounted for 56.6 % of the sellers though there were other categories of sellers such as wholesalers (20.0%), wholesaler/retailers (23.4%) but zero percent of the processors. The profitability analysis showed that an average marketer incurred an average total cost of ₦232,090.83 per quarter but earned an average revenue of ₦316, 80.00 per quarter which imply that an average Shea butter marketer earned ₦84,709.17 per quarter as gross margin. A Gini-Coefficient of 0.77 obtained in this study indicates high level of concentration in the Shea butter market.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".