Abstract            Volume:10  Issue-6  Year-2022         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

The study examined Smallholder Women's Perceptions on the Barriers to Promoting and Processing Local Rice in Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja, Nigeria. Two objectives guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Random sampling was employed to select the farming communities for the study. Descriptive statistics was used to analyzed data obtained and the study underscore the following; that the socio-economic variable; ages between 20-30 are those with high rate of consumption of local with percentage of 46.4% gender had female with 70%. The study revealed that those with tertiary qualification was 72.6% household income between N50,000 - N100,000 were seen to be high with 33.3%. The study shows that household size 1- 5 are majority in the consumption of local with percentage of 60.7%, working experience indicates those between 1 – 10 years with 52.4% 96.4% respondent in the study area accept they consume local with percentage consume it five days in a week. Preference for consumption of local rice had multiple entries with nutritional value as develop on the gain recorded in the rice sector through the ban on importation of foreign rice into the country by ensuring that policies are put in place to encourage more production and consumption of local rice in Nigeria.

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