Socio-Economic Determinants of African Eggplant (<em>Solanum Gilo</em>) Marketers in Abia State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study focused on the socio-economic determinants of African eggplant in Abia State. A multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 120 respondents and a set of well-structured questionnaire was used in data collection. The result of the multiple regression analysis showed that age, marital status, education, type of trader, number of bags of garden egg sold, gender and co-operative society significantly influenced the quantity of African eggplant marketed by traders in the study area. There is the need for extension agents to intensify effort in improving, educating, and encouraging the traders to belong to social organization because of benefits derived from it and for increase in the quantity of the products marketed.