Abstract

This study was conducted in the Dutsinma local Government area of Katsina State on the lessening of the prevalence of poverty through fish production. The primary data used were obtained using structured questionnaires administered to eighty (n = 80) fishermen in the study area. Descriptive statistics, Gini coefficient and profitability analysis were employed to analyze the data. The result showed that 53% of the fishermen were young, 100% were males and 85% were married. Some of the fishermen (52%) had a family size of between 1 and 5. Also 53% had acquired Quranic edification. Results from the study exposed those fishermen use their income to re-invest into fishing activities. The Gini coefficient value of 0.53 indicates that there wereinequalities in the distribution of income. The poverty status of the fishermen showed that 23% and 35% of them were core poor and non-poor respectively. It was also found that fishing was a profitable venture and 100% of the fishermen were faced with inaccessibility to credit facilities. Therefore, it was concluded that the production of fish in this area may lowerthe levels of poverty easily of adopted by re-investment in thissector.

Highlights

  • Nigeria being agriculturally driven has two-thirds of its population tangled in Agriculture or Agro allied activities; this sustains a stable support of 35% to 40% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) between 2008 and 2012 (Oladimeji et al, 2013)

  • Onyeneke, (2017) detected that agrarian within the age group of 31 to 50 years were commonly extra inventive, enthused and adaptive. This was in cognizance with the findings of Agbebi, (2011), where he reported that fish farming was controlled by middle age people; it indicates that the bulk of the fish farmers were young and they have the power to cope with the rigidities of fishing

  • Outcomes of these findings exposed that 100% of the fishermen were males. This implied that the religion and culture of the fish farmers vested the responsibility of every household on males; they have to be involved in revenue generating activities so as to take care of their families

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Introduction

Nigeria being agriculturally driven has two-thirds of its population tangled in Agriculture or Agro allied activities; this sustains a stable support of 35% to 40% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) between 2008 and 2012 (Oladimeji et al, 2013). Poverty is a state of being poor, being deprived from prospects as a result of several factors and a state of disparity. It is a state of low remunerations or low consumption where the resources of households are insufficient to offer a socially adequate standard way of life (Agbebi, 2011). Enormous resources have been devoted to lessen the poverty level by succeeding regimes. Notwithstanding this fortitude geared towards poverty lessening, the existing situations of its people have not seen a substantial progress in the Gross Domestic income Product (NBS, 2013). Several researches were conducted on fish production, profitability of fish farming, socioeconomics of fishing and effects of social capital on poverty alleviation among the fish farming

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