Question

percentage of ondo state small - scale farmers who are female, by main crop grown
geographer adebayo oluwole eludoyin and his colleagues surveyed small - scale farmers in three locations in ondo state, nigeria - which has mountainous terrain in the north, an urbanized center, and coastal terrain in the south - to learn more about their practices, like the types of crops they mainly cultivated. in some regions, female farmers were found to be especially prominent in the cultivation of specific types of crops and even constituted the majority of farmers who cultivated those crops; for instance,
which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example?
a. most of the farmers who mainly cultivated cereals and most of the farmers who mainly cultivated non - root vegetables in south ondo were women.
b. more women in central ondo mainly cultivated root crops than mainly cultivated cereals.
c. most of the farmers who mainly cultivated non - root vegetables in north and south ondo were women.
d. a relatively equal proportion of women across the three regions of ondo mainly cultivated cereals.

Explanation:

1. Analyze Option A: In south Ondo, female cereal farmers are ~33% (not most), so A is incorrect.
2. Analyze Option B: In central Ondo, female root crop farmers (~18%) are fewer than female cereal farmers (~35%), so B is incorrect.
3. Analyze Option C: In north Ondo, female non-root vegetable farmers are ~57% (most); in south Ondo, they are ~50% (a majority/most), so C matches the data.
4. Analyze Option D: Female cereal farmers are ~30% (north), ~35% (central), ~33% (south) — these are not relatively equal, so D is incorrect.

Answer:

C. most of the farmers who mainly cultivated non-root vegetables in north and south Ondo were women.