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The study assessed the determinants of market outlet among catfish farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria.The research was based on reports of withdrawal of farmers from fish farming to other agricultural enterprises.A three-stage random sampling technique was used to select 250 respondents this was because they were few in number and scattered all over the state with the inflow of river Niger.Data was collected using structured questionnaires.The data generated from the survey were analysed using descriptive statistics and a multinomial logistic regression model.The descriptive analysis revealed that the average fish farming experience stood at about 7 years and 64.8% of them did not receive any form of credit whereas, the average production capacity per cycle stood at about 2300 catfish and the average distance to the market was 5.06 kilometres.Also, the majority (41.6%) of the catfish farmers sold their product at the local market, 31.2% at urban markets, and 27.2% at the farm gate.The factors influencing the choice of the local market were having at least secondary education (p<0.05) and distance to the market (p<0.1)which were negative and significant, whereas, the choice of the urban market outlets were influenced by gender (p<0.05),age of the farmer (p<0.1), and having at least secondary education (p<0.01) which were positive and significant while, distance to the market (p<0.1)was negative and significant.The major problems associated with catfish farming in the study area were identified to include; capital (71.8%), high cost of feeds (62.1%), and high cost of transportation (60.5%) amongst others.The study, therefore, recommend that credit facilities should be provided and training on fish farming should be organized to encourage the enterprise.
Adedigba et al. (Sat,) studied this question.