Summary: | This study examines assessment of poverty among rural women in Kagarko Local Government Area and the data was collected through well structured questionnaire from 114 respondents who were selected through a multistage sampling technique. Analytical technique used was descriptive statistics and Foster Greer Thorbecke (FGT) indices.
The major poverty coping strategies used by the respondents were 78.95% collect gifts from their family members, 85.96% sell their farm produce, 87.72% pray to God in the church or mosque, 76.32% involve themselves in town development unions. 86.84% use their personal savings to cope with poverty, 71.93% of the respondents borrow from friends and relations. All the respondents were adversely affected by poverty in the study area such as 79.82% of the women had low standard of poor crude storage processing equipment, 83.3% had lack of access to funds, 64.91% had low accessibility to market, 69.30% had poor housing conditions.
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