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Enhancing Value Addition in Sweet Potato Processing for Food Security and Income Generation in Sokoto Metropolis, Nigeria

Domaine:

agriculturesocioeconomic

Type de record:

paper
Créateur:
AbuGal
Éditeur:
Zenodo
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The study assessed the socio-economic profile, profitability, and constraints of processors of sweet potato-based fries and chips in Sokoto Metropolis, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select a total of 90 respondents (45 processors of fries; 45 processors of chips) from three Local Government Areas (LGAs) using purposive sampling procedures. Data was collected from respondents using structured questionnaires. Descriptive statistics and gross margin analysis were used to analyze the data. The results revealed the processing of both fries and chips was dominated by the female gender (98.88% for fries; 88.34% for chips), with a significant proportion of participants in the youth age bracket. Processors of fries were predominantly married women with very little formal education, while processors of the chips were younger educated men. Both enterprises were profitable, even with challenges of high prices of raw materials and limited access to credit, equipment, and market inadequacies

Languages

Fulfulde, NigerianHausa

Tags

Sweet Potatoes Processing, Value Addition, Agro-Processing, Gross Margin Analysis, Entrepreneurship

Licenses

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeAbubakar and Galadima (2025).http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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