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Analysis of Risks in Honeybee Production Farms in Nigeria: A Boost to Food Security

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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This paper focuses on achieving sustainable food security through analysis of risk in honeybee production farms and determines the risk behaviour of bee farmers in kebbi and kwara states of Nigeria. Primary data were obtained using structured questionnaires and interview. A multi-stage random sampling procedure was employed for selecting 148 respondents comprising 102 traditional bee farmers and 46 modern bee farmers. Descriptive statistics: mean, percentage, standard deviation, the coefficient of variation and, safety model was used to determine the risk attitude coefficient of bee farmers. The conditional distribution of the honey harvest probabilities per ha for a food secure and insecure was plotted against the poverty index using normal kernel cumulative density. Result revealed that risks in apiculture are related to socio-economic and production characteristics. The bulk of traditional bee farmers (57.8%) is categorized as risk neutral while the majority of modern bee farmers (67.4%) belong to risk preferring (with an index of 1.52). The  results revealed that the  set  of significant  explanatory  variables  and  their  sign  vary  across  the traditional and modern  groups. The coefficient for marital status, bee farming experience and family labour were statistically significant for traditional bee farmers. While education, investment, family labour and hired labour were statistically significant for modern bee farmers. Bee farmers are encouraged to form cooperative society and if already existing should liaise with relevant agencies such as the ministry of agriculture and agricultural insurance companies for training, workshops and seminars on the capacity to handle risk-taking into cognizance their socioeconomic and institutional traits.

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10.21608/eajbsa.2019.29075

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Cooperative society, Honeybee, investment, Risk

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Oladimeji

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Y.

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Department of Agricultural Economics, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

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yusuf.dimeji@yahoo.com

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Hassan

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Department of Agricultural Economics, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

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Egwuma

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H.

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Department of Agricultural Economics, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

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Sani

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Department of Agricultural Economics, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

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Galadima

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A.

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S.

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Department of Agricultural Education, Umar Suleiman College of Education, Gashua, Nigeria

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Ajao

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M.

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A.

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Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kwara State University, Malete, Ilorin, Nigeria

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ajaoadeyemi@yahoo.com

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12

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4595

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2019-02-01

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2018-12-14

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2019-02-01

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163

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176

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1687-8809

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2090-0813

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EAJBSA_Volume 12_Issue 1_Pages 163-176.pdf

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Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology

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22 Jan 2023