Abstract
This study investigated factors determining the willingness to adopt grasscutter domestication technology in South west, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 160 respondents from 9 urban towns in Oyo, Ogun and Osun States. Well-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was analysed using descriptive analysis, correlational analysis and t-test. Results showed that the majority (69.4%) of the respondents were male and married. Coefficient correlation (r value) at (p< 0.05), shows that there is a significant association between respondents’ educational status, religion, household size, primary as well as secondary education with respondents’ willingness to adopt the technology. There was also found significant relationship between, perceived health status of those who are into the grasscutter technology, perceived nutritional value and economic value of the grasscutter domestication technology with the willingness to adopt the grasscutter domestication technology. The result if the T-test revealed that there is significant relationship between perceived ease of practice and willingness to adopt the technology. The majority of the respondents are willing to rear grasscutter if variables like space, fund, availability of ready-made buyer and feed, breeding stock and training are put into place. However, issues relating to having enough plots of land, funding, ready-made buyer of grasscutter, and training facilities are most germane. It is therefore recommended that funding and training on the adoption of the grasscutter domestication technology should be made available to individuals.
 Keywords: grasscutter, technology, urban dwellers, southwest Nigeria
Highlights
This study investigated factors determining the willingness to adopt grasscutter domestication technology in South west, Nigeria
Most rural populations in Nigeria depend on bush meat for their dietary protein supply and most Chinese who are resident in Nigeria cherish Grasscutter meat as regular meal and forms delicacy for entertainment for their guest from abroad (Olukole, et al, 2010) As earlier highlighted, wildlife domestication has been recognized as the best way of achieving this objective (Ajayi, 2010)
These barriers do not fully explain why individuals in the urban areas of Southwest, Nigeria may be less willing to adopt the technology, other factors, such as perceptions regarding economic and nutritional value and ease of practice and health status should be considered. The knowledge of these factors and their interrelationships can provide important information towards the development of strategies to promote greater technology adoption by urbanites which could in turn result in improvements in quality of life. It is against the background, this study explored the influence of personal characteristics of individuals, perceived economic and nutritional value, and perceived ease of rearing of the grasscutter and health status of the individual as they determine the willingness to adopt the grasscutter domestication technology
Summary
This study investigated factors determining the willingness to adopt grasscutter domestication technology in South west, Nigeria. Barriers to technology adoption include, personal characteristics of individuals, a lack of awareness, access, skills and experience (Hargittai, 2002) insufficient training (Cotten, Yost, Berkowsky, Winstead and Anderson, 2016; Czaja and Sharit, 2013), decreased confidence in ability to use technology (Czaja et al, 2006: Siren and Knudsen, 2017) These barriers do not fully explain why individuals in the urban areas of Southwest, Nigeria may be less willing to adopt the technology, other factors, such as perceptions regarding economic and nutritional value and ease of practice and health status should be considered.
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