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Women Entrepreneurs’ participation in Agribusiness Value Chain in Kano State

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  • Abubakar Garba,
  • Mahmoud Ahmad Mahmoud,
  • Fatima Usman Sabo
Abubakar Garba
Department of Business Administration Faculty of Social and Management Sciences Yusuf Maitama Sule University Kano
Mahmoud Ahmad Mahmoud
Department of Business Administration Faculty of Social and Management Sciences Yusuf Maitama Sule University Kano
Fatima Usman Sabo
Department of Business Administration Faculty of Social and Management Sciences Yusuf Maitama Sule University Kano
Published in : International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM) , Vol. 12 No. 08 (2024)

Submission to VIJ 2024-08-14

Keywords

  • Agribusiness, women entrepreneurship, push and pull factors

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Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine women entrepreneurs’ motivation to participate in agribusiness value chain. Specifically, the study assessed the role of demographic factors, institutional factors and socio-cultural factors on women motivation towards entrepreneurship participation based on either opportunity or necessity. The study used cross-sectional survey design in which data was collected from 219 women entrepreneurs in Kano State's agribusiness value chain. It employed binary logistic regression, a statistical method that involved observing and analyzing multiple statistical outcome variables simultaneously. This approach is particularly useful in situations where multiple measurements were made on each experimental unit. The study found that demographic, institutional and socio-cultural factors influenced women entrepreneurial motivation to agribusiness. The result indicates that educational level and age are significant demographic factors that influence women participation in agribusiness. It discovered that the probability of women to be motivated in participating in agribusiness to pursue an opportunity is decreasing with more education attainments, while, the probability of women to be motivated to participate in agribusiness is increasing with their ages. The study reveals that the probability of women to be motivated to participate in agribusiness based on opportunity is decreasing with access credit facility (IFACF), access to market (IFAM) and access to government grant and support (IFAGS). While, the probability for women to be motivated to participate based on opportunity is increasing with accessing training and other extension services (IFATES). It further indicates that the possibility for women to be motivated to participate based on necessity is increasing with socio-cultural influences, while decreasing for opportunity-pull entrepreneurs. The study highlights to policy makers that opportunity-pull entrepreneurs may not be affected by socio-cultural factors as it will do to necessity-push entrepreneurs. It has shown that the necessity entrepreneurs have limitation to exploit opportunities due to their poor background, low social networks and are only struggling to survive.  This study is constrained to collect data from only women in urban areas as such the research findings is cannot be applied to those in the rural areas. The study contribute in enriching the literature by providing explanation on the role of demographic, socio-cultural and institutional factors on women who participate in agribusiness based on either necessity or opportunity.

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