Impact of Youth Commercial Agricultural Development Programme on Poverty Status of Rural Households in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Subject Areas : Strategic planning

Adetomiwa Kolapo ¹ , Olanrewaju Adebayo Olanipekun ² , یوآنده بوبولا آکانده ³ , Matthew Kolawole ⁴ , Opeyemi Muhammed ⁵

1 - Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Nigeria
2 - Agricultural Economics and Extension, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Ekiti State University, Ekiti State, Nigeria
3 - ترویج و اقتصاد کشاورزی، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه ابافمی آوولو، نیجریه
4 - Agricultural Economic, Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
5 - Agricultural Economics and Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

Received: 2020-06-05 Accepted : 2021-08-21 Published : 2022-06-01

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