Effect of insurgency on income of marketers in chikun local government area of Kaduna State, Nigeria.

Abstract

The study analyzed the effect of insurgency on income of grain marketers in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to: describe the socio-economic characteristics of the respondent; identify the type of insurgence activities; determine the effect of insurgency on income of the respondents and identify the constraint faced by marketers in the study area. A multi-stage sampling technique was employed to select one hundred thirty two (132) marketers in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State due to the prevalence of insurgence activities in the area. Data were collected through structured questionnaire and were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression model. The result showed that majority (85.6%) of the marketers were married with a mean age of 44 years and majority (79.5%) had secondary education as their highest level of qualification. The result also shows that almost all the respondent (96.2%) have experienced insurgency activity with more than half of the respondents indicated kidnaping (59.8%) and sporadic shooting (20.5%) as the highest forms of insurgency experience in the study area. However, the OLS result shows that, age positively affected income at 10% level of probability, while household size, frequency of occurrence of insurgent activity and severity of the insurgency negatively affected the income of the marketers at 10%, 1% and 5% level of probability respectively in the study area. The most pressing constraints faced by the marketers includes; high cost of crop (X=2.41), lack of access to market (X=2.27), high cost of transportation (X=2.23) and low patronage (X=2.03) ranked among the top four (4) major constraints in the study area, the study area. The study recommends improve security checks in the study area.