SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING THE ADOPTION OF "GURA" FISH TRAP TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIA

The basic premise of extension that agricultural technology will diffuse from more progressive farmers to others in the rural communities is refutable. What is conspicuous in adoption and diffusion of most fishing technologies are basically cost and appropriateness for a large segment of the clientele. A total of one hundred respondents were interviewed using questionnaire in both Lakes Chad and Kainji. Descriptive statistics of mean, percentages and ordered ranking were used to analyse the socio-economic characteristics of the fishers, while ttest was used in determining the significant differences in the socio-economic variables of the two set of respondents. Analysis of result showed that the means of ages for the two sets of respondents were 39 and 33 years, number of years spent on education was 2.8 and 2.3 years, income of N44, 220 and N27, 260 and number of traps as 58.3 and 26.9. The t-test result showed significant differences in the fishers’ age, household size, income and the number of traps owned by the two sets of respondents (P