ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF POVERTY AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN KAGARKO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

This study examines assessment of poverty among rural women in Kagarko Local Government Area and the data was collected through well structured questionnaire from 114 respondents who were selected through a multistage sampling technique. Analytical technique used was descriptive statistics and Foster Greer Thorbecke (FGT) indices. The major poverty coping strategies used by the respondents were 78.95% collect gifts from their family members, 85.96% sell their farm produce, 87.72% pray to God in the church or mosque, 76.32% involve themselves in town development unions. 86.84% use their personal savings to cope with poverty, 71.93% of the respondents borrow from friends and relations. All the respondents were adversely affected by poverty in the study area such as 79.82% of the women had low standard of poor crude storage processing equipment, 83.3% had lack of access to funds, 64.91% had low accessibility to market, 69.30% had poor housing conditions