Factors Affecting Adoption of Fishing Innovations Among Fishing Entrepreneurs in Jebba Lake Communities

Abstract

The study was conducted at Jebba Lake bordered by Kwara and Niger States. The study explored the possible relationships between selected factors like extension contact, level of education, income, awareness, age, household size, experience, cosmopoliteness as independent variables and adoption as dependent variable. Data were collected randomly from 120 respondents in 14 fishing communities using structured questionnaires with interviews and observations as checks for triangulatioh. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple correlation. The results show that cosmopoliteness, awareness, extension contact and age are positively related to adoption of fishing innovations. The Webbing trap has the highest adoption (71.6 %) while the lowest is cast net (12.5 %). Overall, only 20% of the fishermen have adopted the five innovations. The study recommends the provision of operating facilities to enable the extensionists visit the fishermen in their communities. There should be provision of institutional structures such as credit, input supply and exposure to more sources of information to accelerate adoption

Keywords

• Adoption
• Fishing Innovations
• Fishing Entrepreneurs