Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
Farming activities are characterised by seasonal, climatic, and edaphic factors, to mention a few. During off-farming periods, farmers engage in activities to keep themselves busy and it also serves as a means to generate more income. Sometimes these activities can be referred to value addition or alternative source of income generation. Profit made via agricultural activities is seasonal and many youths do not really subscribe to such. Also, the money generated via agricultural activities is basically used for capital projects, while the money generated from off-farming or non-farming activities are used to cater for man’s daily needs, as the case may be.According to Ovwigho (2014), off-farming are supplementary or complimentary activities that farmers engage in either off-season or on-season, to support themselves as applicable in casual labour, transportation business,…
