scholarly journals Determinants of Profitability of Bushmeat Marketing in Oluyole Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 719-722
Author(s):  
K.T. Layade ◽  
A.A. Layade ◽  
Y.T. Owoeye ◽  
O.A. Adenika ◽  
O.T. Oyediji

: The study was carried out to find out the determinants of profitability in bushmeat marketing in Oluyole Government, Oyo state, Nigeria. Primary data were obtained through the use of thirty structured questionnaire administered to bushmeat marketers using a random sampling technique. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, market efficiency and regression analysis. The results showed that all the respondents were female (100%) and married (84%). The mean age of the respondents was 48.0±7.0 years, 83.3% had formal education with average year of experience of 24.0 ±8.0 years in bushmeat marketing. Profitability analysis revealed that bushmeat marketing is profitable venture with an average market margins of N25,309.00 and N6,433.33 per week for fresh and smoked bushmeat respectively. The marketing efficiency was greater than unity (ME>1). Regression analysis result indicated a significant relationship between year of education, marital status, membership of association and the marketing margin (p<0.01). The study thus recommends a policy that will regulate marketing of bushmeat to further enhance its efficiency in the study area.

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-322
Author(s):  
Isiaka Baruwa ◽  
Gideon Familusi

Profitability is a motivational factor in any enterprise. The study compared the profitability of sole maize and maize/melon intercrop in Osun State. A purposive sampling technique was used and primary data collected with the aid of a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, budgetary technique, inferential statistics and regression techniques were used to analyse the data collected. The majority of the respondents were active, male, had formal education and had less than 21 years of experience in cropping systems. The estimated net return to management was N59,323.83 per sole maize farmer or N37, 548.75 per hectare per year and N175,178.68 per farmer or N102, 832.17 per hectare for maize/melon. Budgetary analysis results showed that both sole maize and maize/melon intercrop were profitable. The multiple regressions for maize/melon intercrop revealed that 94.2% of variation in profit was obtained by independent variables in the model. The multiple regressions for the sole maize profit function revealed that 62.3% of variation in profit was obtained by independent variables in the model. The costs of input used, labour employed and quantity sold were the major determinants of profitability. The appropriate policies to enable the farmers to have access to inputs at a subsidised rate should be put in place.


2013 ◽  
Vol 03 (08) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
OYEWALE I.O ◽  
ADEYEMO S.A ◽  
OGUNLEYE P.O

Sustainable economic development does not occur without entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations or revitalizing mature organizations. This study therefore is done to analyse the impact of innovation, technology and on the entrepreneurial development activities in Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a total of 12 entrepreneurs from Lagos State that constituted our sample size. The primary data consists of a number of items in well- structured questionnaire that was administered to and completed by the respondents. Regression analysis was used to analyse the data. The results showed that there is significant relationship between technological innovation and entrepreneurship development in Nigeria. It is therefore recommended that government should create a friendly or an enabling environment for entrepreneurship and consumer goods to boost the Nigeria economy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Kumaradeepan V. ◽  
Pathmini, M G S

The topic of the research is Customer Satisfaction (CS) and Customer Loyalty (CL); special reference to the leading supermarkets in Jaffna. The objective of the research is to identify the impact of Customer Satisfaction on Customer Loyalty of leading Supermarkets in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The research is simply deductive approach to find out the impact between Customer satisfaction and Customer loyalty. Quantitative method is available based on primary data. At present there are 08 numbers of supermarkets functioning in Jaffna district and popular three were selected. Random sampling technique is used to collect the data from customers of supermarkets in selected area. The analysis is carried out using a sample of 240 customers in Jaffna and only 218 were taken to analyze. ‘Statistical Package for Social Sciences’ (SPSS) 22.0 version was used in order to analyze the data. Correlation was used to find the connection between Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty. Also Regression analysis is used to predict the value of a variable based on the value of two or more other variables. Also found that about 40 percent connection between Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty and also found around 16% affect by Customer satisfaction to Customer loyalty.


2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-128
Author(s):  
O. A. Ojo ◽  
W. Buba

This study evaluated the socio-economic characteristics of goat farmers, their production practices and constraints to production in Jigawa State. Respondents for the study were selected using a two-stage sampling technique. Primary data were collected with the aid of well-structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results showed that the majority (73.7%) of the producers are males and most (32.4%) were within the age bracket of 26-35 years, many (39.1%) of them had household sizes of (1-5) and majority of the respondents (53.1%) had informal education. Also, the results revealed that the major constraint to goat production in the study location was lack of initial capital (43.0%), followed by disease and parasites (30.7%), then theft and predators (12.8%). This study recommends that goat farmers should come together and form cooperatives; thereby they could have access to soft loans hence improving production, in terms of medication and capital for investment and expansion.


Author(s):  
Niyaz ◽  
Abbokar Siddiq

This study measures the association of family size and income level on spending and savings habits of rural Muslim households. A well-structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data, which was administered personally to the rural Muslim community in Dakshina Kannada district. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted and secondary data were collected from government officials. The study considered 398 rural Muslim community respondents from five taluks of Dakshina Kannada District. The study found that income and number of dependents in a family play an important role in attributing consumption and savings behavior.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
E. A. Aiyedun ◽  
E. S. Ebukiba ◽  
M. A. Otitoju ◽  
E. O. Ogbole ◽  
A. Luka

paddy and locally milled rice marketers in the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. It specifically examined the marketing efficiencies and factors influencing marketing efficiencies of paddy and locally milled rice marketers in the study area. Primary data were collected using well-structured pre-tested questionnaires while a multistage sampling technique was adopted to obtain responses from respondents. Descriptive (mean, frequency and percentages) and inferential statistics (shepherd’s index and multiple regression analysis) were used to analyze the data. In using shepherd’s index, the results revealed 78% and 77% marketing efficiencies for paddy and locally milled rice respectively while the multiple regression analysis revealed sex, household size, availability of storage facility and contract marketing arrangement were significant to marketing efficiency of paddy rice; while membership of a market association, cost of purchasing rice, selling price of rice, availability of storage facility and contract arrangement were significant to marketing efficiency of locally milled rice. The study concludes that paddy rice marketers are more efficient in the study area and therefore recommends the initiation of more contract arrangements between investors and marketers in the area, while marketers should be encouraged to join marketing associations to take advantage of the endless benefits to be gained. It also recommends the formulation of policies that favour inclusivity of youths and women in the trade.


Author(s):  
Md. Harun Ur Rashid ◽  
Md Hafij Ullah ◽  
Faruk Bhuiyan

Islamic banks must comply with the Shari'ah rulings fully as it is the foundation of Islamic banks. However, the level of Shari'ah compliance is not the same among the Islamic banks. Similarly, despite performing well, the financial performances of Islamic banks differ from each other. Therefore, the chapter explores the association between financial performance and Shari'ah compliance. The chapter used both the primary and secondary data. The primary data was collected through surveying 300 bank executives from six full-fledged Islamic banks operated in Bangladesh with a structured questionnaire on Shari'ah compliance, whereas information on financial performance were extracted from the annual reports of the sample banks. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis were used to analyze the data and conclude the findings. The findings show that Shari'ah compliance has a positive and significant impact on the financial performance with respect to the total liabilities and total assets.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Wirmie Eka Putra ◽  
Indra Lila Kusuma ◽  
Maya Widyana Dewi

This study aims to examine the effect of tax amnesty, knowledge of taxation, tax services and tax sanctions on taxpayer compliance. The sampling technique that will be used in this study is purposive sampling technique. Primary data is collected by distributing questionnaires. The research sample was 45 respondents of individual and body taxpayers found in Jambi City Region. Data analysis techniques in this study are descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. The software used for data processing is SPSS version 21 for Windows. The results of testing the hypothesis are as follows. Simultaneously, tax amnesty, knowledge of taxation, tax authorities and tax sanctions affect taxpayer compliance. Partially, tax amnesty, knowledge of taxation on taxation sanctions has an effect on taxpayer compliance and service of tax authorities has no effect.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Daning Kusniapuantari ◽  
Yoyon Suryono

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pengasuhan pendidik, orangtua dan kerja samanya terhadap pengembangan kecerdasan emosional anak di PPAUD Nusa Indah Bumirejo. Sampel penelitian ditentukan dengan menggunakan teknik stratified random sampling dengan besar sampel 30 anak, 30 orangtua, dan 10 pendidik. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan angket, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Data dianalisis secara statistik deskriptif dan dengan metode analisis regresi linier ganda. Hasil persamaan regresi linier adalah: Y’ = -126,612 + 0,845X1 + 0,864X2. Hasil ini menunjukkan bahwa pengasuhan pendidik berpengaruh signifikan terhadap kecerdasan emosional anak bila dilakukan bersama dengan orangtua. Kerja sama pengasuhan pendidik dan orangtua secara bersama-sama berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap kecerdasan emosional anak, sumbangan pengaruhnya sebesar 73,4%.Kata kunci: kecerdasan emosi, pengasuhan pendidik, pengasuhan orangtua, kerja sama pendidik dan orangtua. THE EFFECT OF THE COOPERATION BETWEEN TEACHERS AND PARENTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF THE CHILDRENAbstractThis study aims to investigate the effect of teachers’, parents, and  cooperation between teachers and parents on the development of the emotional intelligence of the children in PPAUD Nusa Indah Bumirejo. The sample was selected using the stratified random sampling technique with 30 children, 30 parents and 10 teachers. The data collecting instruments consisted of a questionnaire, observation, and documentation. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis mothod. The linear regression equation is Y’= -126.612 + 0.845X1 + 0.864X2. This shows that teachers’ upbringing has a significant effect on children’s emotional intelligence if with parents simultaneously. The cooperation between teachers and parents simultaneously has a significant effect on children’s emotional intelligence, the contribution of the effect is 73.4%.Keywords: emotional intelligence development, teachers’ upbringing, parents’ upbringing, cooperation between teachers and parent


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Hendrianto Hendrianto ◽  
Diah Natalisa ◽  
Dian Eka

This study aimed to analyze product quality and service quality on customer satisfaction.Respondents were the customer of mobile broadband product in Palembang city. Both primary and secondary data were gathered. Secondary data were gathered from various sources such as journals, books and other related publications. Primary data were gathered using questionnaire which were distributed to the respondents. This research used a random sampling technique, a total sample of 100 respondents were obtained. Various statistical analysis tests such as validity, reliability and classical assumption tests were employed. Using a multiple linier regression analysis, the result indicated thatproduct quality and service quality had positive and significant effect on customer satisfaction. The mobile broadband company is suggested to evaluate about the price, product quality, and service quality to provide costumer satisfaction.


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