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<p>Charitable organisations complement government efforts in training young Nigerians in sustainable agricultural practices. A potent means of assessing the effectiveness of this training outlet/effort is the assessment of the sustained utilisation of the skill set acquired by its ex-agripreneurial trainees. A multistage sampling procedure was used to capture sample subjects. The last five sets of ex-trainees were purposively and proportionately sampled, this gave a sample size of 97. Both quantitative and qualitative data were elicited from the sample subjects. The majority (74.2 %) of the ex-trainees were male, middle-aged (38 years), made a net average monthly income of ₦ 46,618, and had an appreciable length of experience (11 years) as agripreneurs. The results of this study were as follows: training on the skill set received by the ex-agripreneural trainees was effective (75.3 %). Inadequate finance (<italic>x̅</italic>= 3.0), economic instability (<italic>x̅</italic>= 2.40) and poor state of infrastructure (<italic>x̅</italic> = 2.23) were prominent among constraints associated with sustained utilisation of the skill set acquired. Enthusiasm about my enterprise (<italic>x̅</italic>= 1.72) was the attribute of an agripreneur possessed most. Sustained utilisation of skill set was high (61.9 %). A significant relationship was established between household size (<italic>r</italic> = 0,456), net average monthly income (<italic>r</italic> = 0.537), years of experience as an agripreneur (<italic>r</italic> = 0.509), perceived effectiveness of training received (<italic>r</italic> = 0.380), attributes of an entrepreneur possessed (<italic>r</italic> = 0.380), and sustained utilisation of skill set acquired. The study recommends that the training modules/templates are sustained and adapted by other training outlets/efforts owing to their effectiveness and the sustainability potentials it confers.</p>
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Charitable organisations complement government efforts in training young Nigerians in sustainable agricultural practices. A potent means of assessing the effectiveness of this training outlet/effort is the assessment of the sustained utilisation of the skill set acquired by its ex-agripreneurial trainees. A multistage sampling procedure was used to capture sample subjects. The last five sets of ex-trainees were purposively and proportionately sampled, this gave a sample size of 97. Both quantitative and qualitative data were elicited from the sample subjects. The majority (74.2 %) of the ex-trainees were male, middle-aged (38 years), made a net average monthly income of ₦ 46,618, and had an appreciable length of experience (11 years) as agripreneurs. The results of this study were as follows: training on the skill set received by the ex-agripreneural trainees was effective (75.3 %). Inadequate finance (x̅= 3.0), economic instability (x̅= 2.40) and poor state of infrastructure (x̅ = 2.23) were prominent among constraints associated with sustained utilisation of the skill set acquired. Enthusiasm about my enterprise (x̅= 1.72) was the attribute of an agripreneur possessed most. Sustained utilisation of skill set was high (61.9 %). A significant relationship was established between household size (r = 0,456), net average monthly income (r = 0.537), years of experience as an agripreneur (r = 0.509), perceived effectiveness of training received (r = 0.380), attributes of an entrepreneur possessed (r = 0.380), and sustained utilisation of skill set acquired. The study recommends that the training modules/templates are sustained and adapted by other training outlets/efforts owing to their effectiveness and the sustainability potentials it confers.

Sustained utilisation of skill set: assessing ex-agripreneurial trainees of agricultural school programme in Osun State, Nigeria

Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension

Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH)

Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development

Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica

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Charitable organisations complement government efforts in training young Nigerians in sustainable agricultural practices. A potent means of assessing the...

Sustained utilisation of skill set: assessing ex-agripreneurial trainees of agricultural school programme in Osun State, Nigeria

Published Online: Dec 12, 2022

Page range: 149 - 158

Received: Feb 10, 2022

Accepted: Nov 12, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ats-2022-0016

Keywords
Education, training, effectiveness, attributes, start-up, constraints

© 2022 Lukman Abiodun Oyebode et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Sustained utilisation of skill set: assessing ex-agripreneurial trainees of agricultural school programme in Osun State, Nigeria

Published Online: Dec 12, 2022

Page range: 149 - 158

Received: Feb 10, 2022

Accepted: Nov 12, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ats-2022-0016

KeywordsEducation, training, effectiveness, attributes, start-up, constraints

© 2022 Lukman Abiodun Oyebode et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Education, training, effectiveness, attributes, start-up, constraints