Micro Enterprise of Women Food Vending in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria

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@article{1706167,
      author = {Mmeremikwu-Fiac Chinyere, Odia Joseph },
      title = {Micro Enterprise of Women Food Vending in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2024},
      volume = {8},
      number = {2},
      pages = {742-748},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1706167.pdf},
      abstract = {Women Food vending is unique in two ways: it highlights the act of income generation, and it puts into consideration women?s contributions in term of the total streets food sector. More often than not, the contributions of rural or some urban women have been invisible, as it was categorized into such rural activities as farming, food processing and handicraft. This paper examines women food vending as a way of generating income, including identifying food vending as a market for foods produced and processed by the sub-urban community. Fifty women food vendors were randomly selected from five sub-urban towns in Afikpo North Local Government of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Data were analyzed using a combination of descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. Results showed that on the average, a woman vendor made a monthly net income of twenty-five thousand, eight hundred and seventy-five naira (25,875). The multiple regression analysis shows that about eighty-eight of the total variation in the food vendors? profit was explained by the independent variables investigated. The author recommended that women food vendors could increase their profits by packaging the food in decent disposable plastics as well as opening more selling outlets.},
      keywords = {Micro-Enterprise, Food-Vending, Sub-Urban, Income, Local Government.},
      month = {August},
  }