Strategies For Enhancing Agricultural Building Maintenance Culture Among Farmers In Enugu State
Nwosu Phina Ifeyinwa Ph.D
Department of Technology and Vocational Education, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu.
Onyia Angela Obioma
Department of Technology and Vocational Education, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu.
Keywords: Strategies, Enhancement, Agricultural Building, Maintenance Culture, Farmers
Abstract
The study examined the strategies for enhancing agricultural building maintenance culture among farmers in Enugu State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. Three research questions and three null hypothesis were used to achieve the purpose of the study. The null hypotheses were tested at probability of 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study comprised 170 respondents made up of 53 agricultural extension workers and 117 registered farmers with the Enugu State agricultural development programme. There was no sampling because the population was manageable. Structured questionnaire was used for data collection made up of 30 items. The instrument was validated by three experts and Cronbach Alpha Statistics was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument and a coefficient of 0.71 was obtained. The data collected were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and t-test were used in testing the null hypothesis. The study found out twelve (12) planned, seven (7) preventive and eleven (11) maintenance strategies that could be used to enhance agricultural building maintenance culture among farmers in Enugu State. The null hypothesis tested showed that there was no significant difference between the mean responses of the agricultural extension workers and farmers with respect to the strategies that could enhance agricultural building maintenance among farmers in Enugu State. Based on these findings, it was recommended that farmers should use planned maintenance strategies to enhance agricultural building maintenance culture; agricultural extension workers should enlighten farmers on the benefits of using preventive maintenance strategies and government should subsidize the cost of building materials to enable the farmers to use corrective maintenance strategies to enhance their building maintenance culture