Cropping Systems: Applications, Management and Impact

90 Joseph Omotoso Ajayi

Table 2. Gender-based cropping system characteristics of cassava farmers
in the study area

Cropping system

characteristics

Male cassava famers Female cassava

farmers

Frequency Percentage

(%)

Frequency Percentage

(%)

Experience in cassava farming

<5 9 5 29 16.11

6 to 10 31 17.22 42 23.33

11 to 15 20 11.11 78 43.33

15 to 20 29 16.11 18 10

>20 91 50.56 13 7.23

Major source of finance

Personal savings 41 22.78 44 24.44

Friends and relatives 39 21.67 13 7.22

Cooperatives 20 11.11 58 32.22

Microcredit

institutions

39 21.67 36 20

Commercial banks 41 22.77 29 16.12

Farm size

<1 88 48.89 102 56.67

1 to 5 43 23.89 49 27.22

6 to 10 32 17.78 23 12.78

>10 17 9.44 6 3.33

Extension service and Technical advice

Development

agencies/research

institutes

53 29.44 44 24.44

ADP 57 31.67 45 25
Farmers’ association 40 22.22 56 31.11
Fellow farmers 30 16.67 35 19.45
Type of labour
Household 56 31.11 35 19.44
Hired 47 26.11 94 52.23
Both 77 42.78 51 28.33
Type cropping system
Mono 57 31.67 35 19.44
Mixed 123 68.33 145 80.56
Method of weed control
Manual weeding 41 22.78 45 25
Chemical control 47 26.11 87 48.33
Both 92 51.11 48 26.67
Source: Computed from field survey, 2015.