Small Scale Farming and Agricultural Products Marketing for Sustainable Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria
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Abstract
Agricultural productions in developing countries have largely been on subsistence basis. The farmers only produce for their families and quantity of food produced are grossly inadequate for the growing population. There is increase widespread in the level of poverty amongst the people, most especially those living in the rural areas. Small scale farming has become one of the ways to tackle the problem of lack and poverty amongst these people. The paper therefore, examines how Small Scale farming assists in alleviating poverty in both rural and urban cities; most especially through marketing of agricultural products to the people. Relevant data were sought from the 356 respondents selected for the study through the Key Informant Interviews (KII). The Student T test and Chi square statistical techniques were further employed to test the Hypotheses stated in the study. Result of the finding reveals the importance of Small Scale Farming and Agricultural Products Marketing in poverty alleviation, most especially among the rural dwellers. It also indicated lack of access to fund as the major problem facing Small Scale Farming and increase cost of transportation as the major problem facing marketing of agricultural products. The Paper recommends that Individuals and Government can combat some of these challenges facing Small Scale Farming by providing adequate basic social infrastructures; make available more funds to the farmers and create more employment opportunities amongst others. The paper concludes that Agriculture no doubt, is an important sector that needs to be given attention in any developing economy. Key words: Small scale farming; Marketing; Rural dwellers; Key interview guide; Agricultural products and poverty Resume: Les productions agricoles dans les pays en voie de developpement etaient principalement sur la base de subsistance. Les agriculteurs ne produisent que pour leurs familles et la quantite des aliments produits est nettement insuffisante pour la population croissante. Il y a une augmentation generalisee de la pauvrete parmi la population, plus particulierement ceux vivant dans les zones rurales. L'agriculture a petite echelle est devenue l'une des facons pour s'attaquer au probleme du manque et de la pauvrete parmi cette population. L'article examine donc comment l'agriculture a petite echelle aide a soulager le probleme de la pauvrete dans les villes rurales et urbaines; plus particulierement a travers la commercialisation des produits agricoles. Des donnees pertinentes ont ete recueillies aupres des 356 repondants selectionnes pour l'etude en utilisant la methode des interviews d'informateurs cles (IIC). Le test T et les techniques statistiques de Chi carre ont ete employes plus tard pour tester les hypotheses enoncees dans l'etude. Le resultat de la recherche revele l'importance de l'agriculture a petite echelle et la commercialisation des produits agricoles dans la reduction de la pauvrete, surtout parmi les habitants des zones rurales. Il a egalement indique le manque d'acces aux fonds comme le probleme majeur auquel l'agriculture a petite echelle fait face et les couts de transport croissant comme le probleme majeur de commercialisation des produits agricoles. Le document recommande que les individus et le gouvernement peuvent combattre certains de ces defis confrontes par l'agriculture a petite echelle, en assurant des adequates infrastructures sociales de base; mettant plus de fonds a la disposition des agriculteurs et creant davantage d'emplois entre autres. L'article conclut que l'agriculture est sans aucun doute un secteur important qui doit etre accorde plus d'attention dans n'importe quelle economie en developpement. Mots-cles: Petite agriculture a petite echelle; Commercialisation; Habitants ruraux; Guide d'interview cles; Produits agricoles et pauvrete
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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