ISSN: 2639-2038
Authors: Ukah AA*, Azeez AT, Abdulsalam A and Ajibola OF
This study assessed traders’ attitude towards prevention of mycotoxin contamination in Federal Capital Territorial markets, Abuja. Two research questions, two research objective and two hypotheses guided the study. This adopted survey research design. The population for this study comprises all traders’ in major market in Abuja, which includes Wuse market, Garki international market, Utakoultra modern market, Kado fish market, Karmo market, Gudu market, and Maitama farmers’ market, the estimated population for this study is ten thousand and seventy three (10,073). Accidental sampling procedure was used to distribute copies of questionnaire to the respondents. The instrument used for the study was researcher’s developed questionnaire, named questionnaire on assessment of traders’ attitude towards prevent of mycotoxins contamination. The validity was established using the face and content, the reliability of the instrument was 0.81. Descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentage, mean and standard deviation was used to describe the demographic characteristics and to point out respondents’ opinion on research questions formulated while inferential statistics of chi-square and independent t-test was used to test all the formulated null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha levels. All the tested hypotheses were accepted at 0.05 alpha levels. It is concluded that traders in FCT Abuja have no good attitude towards prevention of mycotoxin contamination; and there is no significant difference in attitude of traders towards prevention of mycotoxin contamination among traders in Abuja based on gender. Therefore, it is recommended general public should be educated on dangers of mycotoxin in order to improve their attitude positively towards mycotoxin contamination.
Keywords: Traders; Attitude Prevention; Mycotoxin; Contamination
