ACCEPTANCE OF YOGHURT PRODUCTION AS EMPOWERMENT BY WOMEN GROUPS IN RANO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KANO STATE

Résumé

This Supervised Enterprise Project (SEP) was conducted in order to create awareness, empower and impart the skills and knowledge of sustainable techniques of milk processing by converting it to yoghurt. The project empowered thirty rural women leaders in Rano town, Rano LGA of Kano State on how to make yoghurt from fermented cows‘ milk (nono), thus helping them economically. One hundred questionnaires were distributed to one hundred households in order to assess socio-economic aspects of milk producers in Rano LGA. Chi-square and simple descriptive statistics were used to analyse and describe the data collected. Majority of the farmers had poor knowledge of improved yoghurt processing prior to this project. However, all the farmers reported to have improved their yoghurt processing skills after the project. Furthermore, majority of the farmers indicated willingness to adopt the technology acquired. Chi-square analysis showed that there was a significant (p<0.05) difference in willingness to adopt the yoghurt technology between owners of large and small herds, which indicates that, farmers with large number of animals in their herd were more willing to adopt yoghurt technologies than those with fewer animals.