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This study examined the effect of plastic/nylon pollution, the disposal method and the factors influencing the methods of disposal in Oyo state. This study was conducted in eleven local government areas (LGA) of Oyo states using structured questionnaire with five hundred respondents purposively selected but 454 questionnaires were valid for the research analysis. The analytical tools used were descriptive statistics (such as percentage and frequency) and multinomial regression model. Majority (81%) of the respondents were married, about 88.6% of the respondents were educated. Most (84%) of the sampled households had a family size of between 1 and 5 with almost 60% of the respondents earning between ₦10,000-₦50,000. The study observed that 54% of the respondents’ choice of plastic and nylon disposal methods was time savings, about 86% had no difficult in disposing their waste, 29.5% of the respondents stated that plastic and nylon waste disposal block water ways. The factors influencing plastic/nylon disposal were waste collectors (p

There have been several governmental approaches and interventions to increase the production of cassava crop in Nigeria which have not been yielding desired results due to market linkage failure. This study seeks to assess women involvement in cassava value chain among cassava processors and marketers in Afijio Local Government of Oyo States. Two – stage sampling procedure was used to select the respondents for the study. Simple descriptive statistics such as mean, frequency counts and percentages were used to analyze the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents while Likert scale descriptive analysis was used to determine the level of participation of women involving in cassava value chain and ordinary least squares multiple regression analysis was adopted to determine the factors influencing the involvement of women in cassava value chain. The study concluded that women in the study area usually involve in promotion, publicity, fermenting the cassava flour, price reduction and packaging. Also, educational statuses, participation in cooperative activities, as well as access to farm credit were significant factors that influence women involvement in cassava value chain among cassava processors and marketers in the study area. The study urged the Government to intervene in the business by making the processing and marketing of cassava friendly through an improved technology as well as provision of easily accessed credit facilities.