Abstract
Poverty reduction has been one of the main objectives of major international organisations like FAO, World Bank, UNICEF and governments’ especially those of Africa. This study contributes to the fight against poverty through the analysis of market gardening as a strategy to poverty reduction in the Jakiri municipality. Data were collected through household interview, focus group discussion, interview of personnel of the ministry of agriculture and rural development, councils, religious heads and local chiefs) and field observations. Data were analysed by descriptive statistics, correlation and regression. The findings revealed that 73% of the market gardeners in Jakiri subdivision did not attend secondary school, lack skills to compete for jobs in urban areas. Agriculture particularly market gardening was their major source of income generating activity as more than 75% of the household income comes from market gardening. Also, more than 80% of what is produced is sold. Moreover, 90% of the gardeners in Jakiri subdivision think that if government could help them improve on their productivity their livelihoods will improve and this will take them out of poverty. There are high expectations that the income and the number of market gardeners will rise over time and space. This can be seen by the number of farmers involved and their earning where more than 70% earn from 1,000,000FCFA and above per year, an average of 83,334FCFA and above per month. Targeted marketing development strategies need to be followed by market gardeners and various stakeholders in Jakiri to better exploit the economic potential of these crops and at the same time maintaining its contributions to the local crop diversity.
Highlights
Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is an annual, indeterminate plant with a diploid chromosome number of 2n=2x=26 and belonging to family Pedaliacea
According to the GGE bi-plot different sesame growing environments grouped into two mega-environments: The first mega-environment contained the favorable environments Dansha area with a vertex G4 and Sheraro area with winner G3 and the second environment included medium to low environments E2 (Humera-2), E4 (Dansha-2), E5 (Sheraro-1), E7 (Wargiba-1), E8 (Wargiba-2) and E9 (Maykadra) for seed yield
The first is model diagnoses, AMMI is more appropriate in the initial statistical analysis of yield trials, because it provides an analytical tool of diagnosing other models as sub cases when these are better for particular data sets Gauch [2]
Summary
Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is an annual, indeterminate plant with a diploid chromosome number of 2n=2x=26 and belonging to family Pedaliacea. Yij is the observed mean yield of ith genotype in the jth environment; μ is the grand mean; Gi is the ith genotypic effect; Ej is the jth environment effect; is the eigen value of the principal component analysis (PCA) axis k; and are the ith genotype jth environment PCA scores for the PCA axis k; is the residual; n is the number of PCA axes retained in the model. An ideal genotype is defined as one that is the highest yielding across test environments and absolutely stable in performance Such an “ideal” genotype may not exist in reality, it could be used as a reference for genotype evaluation Mitrovic, et al [15]. A genotype is more desirable if it is located closer to “ideal” genotype Mitrovic, et al [15] and Kaya, et al [16]
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