Household Health and Returns of Arable Crop Farming in Osun State, Nigeria

The study examined the effect of household health on returns of arablecrop farmers in Osun State, Nigeria. A multi-stage samplingtechnique was used to select 240 crop farmers from whom data wereobtained from February to April 2019. Data collected were analysedwith the aid of descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis.The hypotheses were tested using paired sampled t-test. The resultobtained showed that high proportion of the farmers were males withmean age of 44 years. Majority of the farmers were married andeducated with mean household size of 8 persons. The average farmingexperience of respondent was 16 years with mean farm size of2.28ha.They have average income of N258, 412.5k. The most commonillness was malaria. The result showed that 42.1% of farm income waslost to treatment of illnesses. Majority of the people patronizetraditional medication whenever they are sick. The variables that hadnegative and significant relationship with profitability in the modelwere age, household size, number of time ill, number of days lost andcost of treatment. Farm size and farming experience bore positive signand had significant relationship with arable crop farmer’s profitabilityat 1% 5% and 10% probability. The result of the t-test result showedthat illness affect number of days worked, output, income andexpenditure of farmers. It was recommended that more affordablehealth service providers should be provided to reduce cost.

PDF

___

Achoja FO 2011. Economic Effect of Malaria on the Productivity of Artisanal Fishers in Lake Ona, Delta State, Nigeria. Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 44(4): 219-222.

Adesugba M, Mavrotas G 2016.Youth Employment, Agricultural Transformation, and Rural Labor Dynamics in Nigeria. IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 1579. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2884934accessed 17th August 2019.

Babiarz P, Yilmazer T 2017. The Impact of Adverse Health Events on Consumption: Understanding the Mediating Effect of Income Transfers, Wealth, and Health Insurance. Health Economics, 26(12):1743- 1758.

Banik B 2017. Barriers to Access in Maternal Healthcare Services in the Northern Bangladesh. South East Asia Journal of Public Health, 6(2): 23- 36.

Baranov V, Kohler HP 2018.The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(1):266-306.

Berry E 2017. Factors Influencing the Utilization of Intermittent Preventative Treatment for Malaria in Pregnant Women in the African Region: A Literature Review. Master Essay, submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology University of Pittsburgh.

Bevan S 2015. Economic Impact of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) on Work in Europe. Best Practice and Research Clinical Rheumatology, 29(3):356- 373.

Bloom DE, Canning D, Kotschy R, Prettner K, Schünemann JJ 2019. Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence. NBER Working Paper Series. National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge.

DeVaro J, Heywood JS (2017).Performance Pay and Work-Related Health Problems: A Longitudinal Study of Establishment. Industrial and Labour Relations Review, 70 (3):670-703.

Dupas P, Miguel E (2017). Impacts and determinants of health levels in low-income Countries. Handbook of Economic Field Experiments, 2: 3-93.

Fiorella KJ, Milner EM, Salmen CR, Hickey MD, Omollo DO, Odhiambo A, Mattah B, Bukusi EA, Fernald LCH, Brashares JS 2017. Human Health Alters the Sustainability of Fishing Practices in East Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(16): 4171-4176.

Ha TM, Boseh OJH, Nguyen NC 2016. Establishing an Evolutionary Learning Laboratory for Improving the Quality of Life of Vietnamese Women in Small‐Scale Agriculture: Part II – Systemic Interventions. Systems Research and Behavioural Science, 33(3):341-359.

Ibitoye SJ, Shaibu MU, Sanda ME, Ajayi B 2016. Effect of Malaria on Farm Household Income in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria. International of Journal of Agricultural and Rural Development, 19(1):2386–2391.

Iheke OR, Ukaegbu, HI 2015. Effect of Poor Health and Farmers’ Socio-economic Variables on Total Factor Productivity of Arable Crop Farm Households in Abia State, Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Agriculture, Food and Environment, 11(3):141 -146.

Lu ZN, Chen H, Hao Y, Wang J, Song X, Mok TM 2017.The Dynamic Relationship Between Environmental Pollution, Economic Development and Public Health: Evidence from China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 66:134-147.

Mitra S, Palmer M, Mont D, Grace N 2016. Can Households Cope with Health Shocks in Vietnam? Health Economics,25 (7): 888-907.

Musa UK 2018. Assessment of House to House Inspection Manual in the Control of Sanitation Related Diseases in Gombe Metropolis. A Ph.D Dissertation submitted to the Department of Environmental Health Science Kwara State University Malete, Nigeria.

Naseer S 2016. Health and Empowerment: A Sociological Study of Women in Aligarh City. A Ph.D Thesis Submitted to the Department of Sociology Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.

Olowogbon TS, Babatunde RO, Asiedu E 2019.How Can Inclusive Agricultural Health Policy Intervention Promote Shared Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria? Evidence from Randomized Control Trial. NBER Working Paper Series Nber Working Paper No. 26043. National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge.

Onuche U, Opaluwa HI, Edoka MH 2014. Ill health and Agricultural Production: Evidence from Kogi State of Nigeria. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 14(1):8489-8503.

Onyema JI, Nyenke CU 2019. Health Care, Health Status and Labour Productivity in Nigeria. KIU Journal of Social Sciences, 5 (2):49-58.

Oteh OU, Nwachukwu IN, Nwachukwu CS 2016. Measuring Solvency and Its Determinants among Small and Medium Agribusiness Enterprises in Imo State, Nigeria. Journal of Agribusiness, 34(2):165-180.

Oyedeji OA, Ukemenam MN, Mohammed AB, Ojediran EO 2016. Effect of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure on the Welfare of Rural Households in Kwara State, Nigeria. International Journal of Health Economics and Policy, 1(1, 2):1-5.

Rashad AS, Sharaf MF 2015. Catastrophic and Impoverishing Effects of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure: New evidence from Egypt. American Journal of Economics, 5: 526-533.

Yamou TA, Molua EL 2018. Impact of Poor Health of Maize Farmers on Farm Performance in Southwestern Cameroon. American Journal of Public Health Research, 6(3): 155-159.