Abstract:
The need to strengthen the intellectual capabilities of women in their enterprises is important so as to improve
their capacities to contribute to household and national development. Any of such intervention should be based on
knowledge of the situation to be meaningful. The study assessed the training needs of women farmers on vegetable
productions. The study was carried out in Akinyele local government area of Oyo state, Nigeria. Multistage
sampling proce-dure was used to obtain primary data from 120 women farmers cultivating vegetable in the
local government area. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentages
while binomial logit regression model was used to analyse the variables in the hypothesis of the study. The
result of the analysis re-vealed that the mean age of the women vegetable farmers was 46.45 years and areas of
training needs identified by the women were in the areas of chemical weed control, fertiliser
selection/rate/application, compost manure preparation. The result of the binomial logit analysis established that
involvement in food crop production signifi-cantly influenced the training needs of women vegetable farmers
(β=-0.274, p=0.040). The study emphasised the need for the extension agencies to design adequate training
programme to meet the needs of women vegetable farmers in the areas of identified training deficiencies.
