ABSTRACT:

The study focused on income generation among women in Adamawa state, Nigeria. The specific objectives was to describe the socio-economic characteristics of respondents on turmeric-cloves spice processing, examine the awareness of the respondents and identify the constraints encountered by the respondents on turmeric-cloves spice processing. A sample of 120 respondents was selected using a multi-stage sampling. Data were collected using a well-structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages and mean scores were used to analysed objectives, I, II and III of the study. Research findings revealed that the mean age of the respondents was 38.30years, majority of the respondents (76.7%) were married, (39.2%), (26.7%), (17.5%) had secondary, tertiary and primary education. The mean household size was 5.48 person. The findings also revealed that (54.2%) of the total respondents were not aware of turmeric-cloves spice processing in the study area. The study showed (33.3%) which constitute the majority of the respondents that lack of processing facilities was their major constraint encountered with turmericcloves spice processing. Based on the findings of the research it was recommended that more older women groups should be encouraged to participate in turmeric-cloves spice processing so as to generate income to cater for their family needs, more extension officers/agents should be recruited and trained by the state and federal government so as to help in the dissemination of information on improved technologies to the women groups or farmers