SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY OF FISH FARMERS BUSINESS IN FUNTUA AGRICULTURAL ZONE, KATSINA STATE
Abstract
The study was conducted to evaluate the socio-economic survey of fish farmers Business in
Funtua Agricultural zone, Katsina state Nigeria as the case study. The primary data were
obtained from 20 respondents with a structured questionnaires which were selected using simple
random sampling techniques. The study revealed that most (75%) of fish farmers are male while
(65%) are in the age distribution of 30 and above years. tertiary education (75%) and (65%)
were married, (40%) had a household size that ranged between 6-10 persons. Results of the
descriptive analysis and tests of significance however showed that there was a significant
relationship between socio-economic characteristics and constraints of the fish farm enterprise.
Implication of these findings were critically examined and pertinent It is recommended that
prices of feed and access feeds by catfish farmers be regulated by the senate government in order
to ameliorate the problem of high cost of feed/adequate supply of feeds to catfish farmers in the
study area to engage in commercial production..
Keywords: Agricultural zone, Constraints, Fish, Profit and Socioeconomic.
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