Actor’s roles and interactions in fishery innovation system: the case of Mubi zone, Adamawa state, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the role of actors in fishery marketing innovation system in Mubi zone Adamawa state, Nigeria. Data for the study was collected through the use of structured questionnaire distributed to 96 respondents. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques was used as sampling procedures and descriptive statistics was used as analytical tools. The result revealed that fish rearers/breeders, fish marketers, fish drug dealers, feed millers, extension agents, research institutes, transporters and government agencies were the main actors in the innovation system. The analysis of the study indicated that actors perfumed the role of supplying of fish to consumers, training man power and other actors, supply of feeds to farmers/producer, supply of drugs to farmers/producers, technology generation and dissemination of generated technology. The major challenges affecting the innovation system were poor access to capital, insecurity/insurgency and inadequate personal startup capital respectively. Therefore, there is need to encourage the establishment of fish marketing association in the zone due to their roles in providing new ideas, good prices to both buyers and marketers. It was recommended that government/ non-governmental organizations (NGOs)/philanthropies needs to support the fish farmers/marketers in the innovation system and the public/government partnership should also provide security to tackle the problem of insecurity/insurgency in the innovation system and Mubi zone at large.