Research Article
Poverty Alleviation through Optimizing the Marketing of Garcinia kola and Irvingia gabonensis in Ondo State, Nigeria
Table 1
Age distribution of respondent (traders) for market assessment in the two ecological zones (%).
| Ecological zone | Age range | Irvingia gabonensis | Garcinia Kola | Rural market | Urban market | Rural market | Urban market |
| Rainforest | 21–30 yrs | 5.3 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31–40 yrs | 36.8 | 60.0 | 18.2 | 40.0 | 41–50 yrs | 47.4 | 33.3 | 36.4 | 30.0 | 51–60 yrs | 10.5 | 0.0 | 46.4 | 20.0 | >60 yrs | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10.0 |
| Derived Savanna | 21–30 yrs | 0.0 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31–40 yrs | 43.8 | 12.6 | 15.4 | 13.3 | 41–50 yrs | 50.0 | 56.2 | 38.4 | 40.0 | 51–60 yrs | 6.2 | 25.0 | 23.1 | 13.3 | >60 yrs | 0.0 | 0.0 | 23.1 | 33.4 |
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