Cultural Trade: Promoting Entrepreneurial Women Cultural Herbs Traders in Nigeria

Charles Temitope Jegede, M. Opatola, Nihinlolawa Oluwabusayo Jegede
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Cultural Trade/Industry is a new concept for the activities of traditional industries including herbal medicinal dealers and largely remains a small family business dominated by women. However, despite their pivotal roles in Nigeria Health Care Delivery System, they continue to suffer neglect from government. This paper attempts to investigate the activities of this cultural trade with a view to foreground its contribution to the society. Multistage sampling procedures were used in the study. 72 Traders were randomly selected in 6 Local Government Development Areas of Ondo state, Nigeria. In addition, 504 clients were interviewed but 21 respondents, not well captured were rejected, remaining 483 clients. The questionnaires were analyzed using chi square analysis. Descriptive statistical techniques (frequency and percentages) were used to summarize the data collected. Secondary data were extracted from books, journals and other relevant publications. The study revealed that Cultural Herb Trade is predominantly dominated by women. The Traders have low entrepreneurship orientation, displaying their wares under sheds in the public markets; earning less than US$1000 as profit yearly. They claimed inability to access loan from support institutions due to their poor financial literacy and abandonment. The findings showed that socio-economic attributes of Cultural Herbs Traders had significant effect on their performance (x2 = 6.162877, df = 2, pr = 0.029). The findings also showed significant relationship between the treatment modalities of Cultural Herb Traders and their performance (Person x2 = 50.18154 Pr = 0.000). Moreover, there existed significant relationship between the networking strategies of Cultural Herb Traders and performance (x2=44.63424, df = 2, pr=0.0009). It was found that Cultural Herb Traders provided both preventive and curative health care services with significant association between performance and patronage by clients (x2=254.8922, df = 6, pr=0..000), especially in the areas of malaria, infertility and small pox diseases to mention a few. 94% of the Clients indicated their continuous support to patronize the Traders because their medicines were efficacious. 89% of the clients/customers/buyers signified their intention to increase their patronage because of the good performance of their treatment. The study concluded that in spite of the prominence of these cultural herb traders, there is inadequate financial and research assistance from academia and corrupt government. Thus, Local Government may want to increase their research budgets to embrace modernization of cultural herbs trade sector.
文化贸易:促进尼日利亚女性文化草药商人创业
文化贸易/产业是包括草药经销商在内的传统产业活动的新概念,在很大程度上仍然是由妇女主导的小型家族企业。然而,尽管他们在尼日利亚卫生保健服务系统中发挥着关键作用,但他们仍然受到政府的忽视。本文试图对这种文化贸易的活动进行调查,以期展望其对社会的贡献。本研究采用多阶段抽样程序。在尼日利亚翁多州的6个地方政府开发区随机抽取72名贸易商。另外,504名客户接受了采访,但有21名未被很好地捕获,其余483名客户被拒绝。问卷采用卡方分析进行分析。使用描述性统计技术(频率和百分比)来总结收集到的数据。次要数据从书籍、期刊和其他相关出版物中提取。研究表明,文化草药贸易主要由女性主导。商贩创业倾向较低,在公开市场的棚子下展示商品;每年的利润少于1000美元。他们声称,由于金融知识贫乏和被遗弃,无法从支持机构获得贷款。结果表明,文化药材贸易商的社会经济属性对其经营绩效有显著影响(x2 = 6.162877, df = 2, pr = 0.029)。研究结果还显示,文化草药商人的治疗方式与其绩效之间存在显著关系(Person x2 = 50.18154 Pr = 0.000)。此外,文化草药交易者的网络策略与绩效之间存在显著的相关关系(x2=44.63424, df = 2, pr=0.0009)。研究发现,文化草药商人既提供预防保健服务,也提供治疗保健服务,其业绩与客户的赞助之间存在显著关联(x2=254.8922, df = 6, pr= 0.000),特别是在疟疾、不孕症和天花等疾病领域。94%的客户表示,他们继续支持光顾这些商人,因为他们的药物是有效的。89%的客户/顾客/买家表示,由于他们的服务表现良好,他们有意增加他们的惠顾。该研究得出的结论是,尽管这些文化草药商人很出名,但学术界和腐败政府的财政和研究援助不足。因此,地方政府可能希望增加他们的研究预算,以拥抱文化草药贸易部门的现代化。
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