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Labour Utilization and Productivity of Primary Health Care Programmes of Beneficiaries in North-East Benue, Nigeria
Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research
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Labour Utilization and Productivity of Primary Health Care Programmes of Beneficiaries in North-East Benue, Nigeria
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P.I., Ater
I.U., Odoemenem I.I., Ama |
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Primary healthcare services, Output, Labour productivity, Beneficiaries, Non beneficiaries. — |
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This study assessed labour utilization and productivity of primary health care beneficiaries in the North-Eastern zone of Benue state, Nigeria. Data where sampled from 140 beneficiaries and 100 non beneficiaries making pooled sample size of 240 respondents. Both secondary and primary data were used for this study. The result revealed that beneficiary respondents recorded higher productivities for maize (1.81 tons/ha), rice (2.84 tons/ha), guinea corn (2.39tons/ha), yam (1.42tons/ha), cassava (2.29tons/ha), pepper (1.49tons/ha), melon (1.87tons/ha), bambaranut (1.81tons/ha) and beniseed (2.42tons/ha) when compared with the output of non beneficiaries in soyabeans (1.21tons/ha), groundnut (0.85tons/ha), potato (1.13tons/ha), tomato (0.52tons/ha) and cowpea (0.94tons/ha). The study further revealed that on the average, beneficiary respondents worked on their farms 10 times/week, while non beneficiary respondents worked for 7 times/week indicating that the beneficiaries worked for higher number of times and hours on their farms per week when compared to non beneficiaries.
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Asian Online Journal Publishing Group
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2016-09-02
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJEER/article/view/830
10.20448/journal.501/2016.3.1/501.1.122.129 |
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Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research; Vol 3, No 1 (2016); 122-129
2409-2622 2518-010X |
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eng
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http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJEER/article/view/830/pdf
http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJEER/article/view/830/html http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJEER/article/view/830/660 |
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Copyright (c) 2016 Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research
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