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Utilization of Cocoyam in Rural Households in Southwestern Nigeria

机译：尼日利亚西南部农村居民对可可粉的利用

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Cocoyam is a traditional crop and a cultural foodstuff in Nigeria. It has not received much research attention in spite of its great adaptability to varying farming systems and its nutritive and commercial food values. The crop is a yam substitute that occupies an inferior food status in the study area. It is mainly cultivated by women and in most cases planted as an intercrop in a previously established farm. It is, therefore, regarded as a lazy man’s crop and consequently a poor man’s food. The aim of this study was to revive the acceptability of cocoyam as foodstuff in order to solve the food crisis, which Nigeria has been experiencing since 1978. A structured interview schedule was used to obtain information from randomly selected 322 respondents from 24 cocoyam producing communities in four states in the region: Ondo, Ekiti, Ogun and Lagos states. The question items included personal and socio-economic characteristics of respondents and cocoyam utilization. The data were described using frequency counts, means and percentages while multiple regression analysis was used as inferential statistics to determine the relationship of the independent variables to the dependent variable. Results revealed that 64% of the respondents were males and 84% were married. Their ages ranged from 20-70 years with a mean of 44±16 years. About 68% of them were literate with 58% of their spouses literate. They were mostly (39%) farmers and artisans (12%) with no secondary occupation, only 28% of the farmers produced cocoyam but almost all (97%) of the respondents consumed cocoyam. Cocoyam was utilized in 24 different ways in three categories of unprocessed solid, processed solid and powder in the study area and utilization level was 20%. The multiple regression analysis was significant at p< 0.05 and R=0.3469, meaning that the independent variable:socio-economic characteristics had jointly accounted for 35% of cocoyam utilization level. F value was 5.334. The variables that contributed positively to utilization level were producers of cocoyam, sources of cocoyam and cocoyam being brought home from journey while cosmopolitan, flexibility on food choice and decision makers on menu contributed negatively. Commercial processing of cocoyam to flour for baking, canned foods, baby food formulae and other cocoyam products are recommended to increase utilization. Farmers were advised to increase cocoyam production in the study area.
机译：可可酱是尼日利亚的传统农作物和文化食品。尽管它对各种农作系统具有很好的适应性，并且营养和商业食品价值很高，但并没有引起很多研究关注。该作物是山药的替代品，在研究区的食物状况较差。它主要由妇女种植，在大多数情况下，是作为农作物套种在以前建立的农场中的。因此，它被认为是懒惰的人的庄稼，因此被视为穷人的食物。这项研究的目的是恢复可可粉作为食品的可接受性，以解决自1978年以来尼日利亚就一直在经历的粮食危机。采用结构化访谈时间表从24个可可粉生产社区的322名受访者中随机抽取信息。该地区有四个州：翁多，埃基蒂，奥贡和拉各斯州。问题包括受访者的个人和社会经济特征以及可可粉的利用率。使用频率计数，均值和百分比来描述数据，而将多元回归分析用作推论统计以确定自变量与因变量的关系。结果显示，64％的受访者是男性，84％的已婚。他们的年龄从20-70岁不等，平均44±16岁。其中约68％的人识字，而58％的配偶识字。他们主要是（39％）农民和手工业者（12％），没有第二职业，只有28％的农民生产可可粉，但几乎所有受访者（97％）都消费了可可粉。在研究区域中，可可粉以24种不同的方式用于未加工的固体，加工的固体和粉末三类，利用率为20％。多元回归分析在p <0.05和R = 0.3469时具有显着性，这意味着自变量：社会经济特征共同占可可粉利用率的35％。 F值为5.334。对利用率水平有正面影响的变量是可可粉的生产者，可可粉的来源和从旅途中带回家的可可粉，而国际性，食物选择的灵活性和菜单上的决策者则产生了负面影响。建议将可可粉商业化加工成面粉用于烘烤，罐头食品，婴儿食品配方和其他可可粉产品，以提高利用率。建议农民在研究区增加可可粉的产量。

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