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Transportation Infrastructure as a Determinant of Agricultural Marketing Outcomes among Farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria

This study investigates how transportation infrastructure affects marketing outcomes of agricultural produce in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Transportation infrastructure the most crucial being the condition, accessibility, and reliability of rural roads helps to determine the extent to which farmers are actively able to transport their produce from farm sites to markets, thereby influencing price realization, market participation, and marketing performance. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed, whereby from each of the twelve sampled communities across three local government areas, ten resp…