Question 9867b06a

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605550454035302520151050Female farmersas a percentage of totalnorth Ondocentral Ondosouth OndoPercentage of Ondo State Small-Scale Farmers Who Are Female, by Main Crop GrownOndo State region cereals root crops non–root vegetables
  • For each data category, the following bars are shown:
    • cereals
    • root crops
    • non–root vegetables
  • The data for the 3 categories are as follows:
    • north Ondo:
      • cereals: 30.4%
      • root crops: 16.73%
      • non–root vegetables: 58.69%
    • central Ondo:
      • cereals: 36.9%
      • root crops: 19.93%
      • non–root vegetables: 45.1%
    • south Ondo:
      • cereals: 35.9%
      • root crops: 18.78%
      • non–root vegetables: 53.27%

Geographer Adebayo Oluwole Eludoyin and his colleagues surveyed small-scale farmers in three locations in Ondo State, Nigeria—which has mountainous terrain in the north, an urbanized center, and coastal terrain in the south—to learn more about their practices, like the types of crops they mainly cultivated. In some regions, female farmers were found to be especially prominent in the cultivation of specific types of crops and even constituted the majority of farmers who cultivated those crops; for instance, blank

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