Tapping the Entrepreneurial Ability of Urban Crop Farmers in Income Generation in Lagos, Nigeria

摘要

Inefficient economies and poor governance precipitate factory closures, retirements, growing unemployment thereby stimulating growth of crop farming in towns and cities of developing countries. The study evaluates the entrepreneurial ability of urban crop farmers, identifying issues that can be resolved in order to benefit from entrepreneurship of the urban crop farmer in the Lagos metropolis. Crop farmers in some locations where urban crop farming was found to be thriving within the Lagos Metropolis were selected through simple random sampling and questionnaire administered on them. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics while one-way analysis of variance test was used to investigate the research hypothesis. The study established that there was dexterity by urban crop farmers to go into large-scale or market-oriented farming to generate more income. Also, 63.3% of famers cultivated over 200 farm beds while only 2.6% cultivated less than 100 farm beds. The study concluded that tapping the entrepreneurial ability of urban crop farmers was a veritable source of poverty alleviation, food security and income generation and that land be zoned for the activity in specified areas for medium to long-term lease periods to enhance farmers' productivity.