105 URL: www.onlinesciencepublishing.com | September, 2022 Rural Women Involvement in Oil Palm Value Chain in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria Canadian Journal of Agriculture and Crops Vol. 7, No. 2, 105-111, 2022 e-ISSN: 2518-6655 (۞ Corresponding Author) Obot Akaninyene 1۞ Ozor Maurice 2 Anunobi Chizoba P. 3 1,3,,3 Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. 1 Email: ap.obot@unizik.edu.ng 2 Email: mu.ozor@unizik.edu.ng 3 Email: chizziea@gmail.com ABSTRACT The study examined the involvement of rural women in oil palm value chain activities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Data was collected from two hundred and ten (210) respondents purposively selected from rural oil palm women farmers in Akwa Ibom State. Collected data was analyzed using frequencies, percentage and ranking method. The results showed that the respondents were in their prime age (youthful age/active age) 26-50 years of age. Majority of the respondents also had formal education (primary, secondary or tertiary). Furthermore, most of the respondents (63.8%) were married as that served as labor for the oil palm value chain activities. Also, most of the respondents had a household size of 1-5 persons. A greater percentage of the respondents equally had 11-20 years experiences in oil palm business. In assessing the oil palm value activities the respondents were involved in, the result revealed that the respondents were actively involved in the processing, marketing and storage of the oil palm business. They were less involved in the planting and harvesting of the palm fruits which was more cumbersome and manly. Among the constraints, lack of finance was identified as the topmost constraint to risk, high cost of labor, high cost of transportation, theft etc. The study recommended that government/stakeholders should ensure that the rural women have access to credit and technology to make the business more attractive to the young women. Keywords: Agriculture, Constraints, Involvement, Oil palm, Rural women, Value chain. DOI: 10.55284/cjac.v7i2.697 Citation | Obot Akaninyene; Ozor Maurice; Anunobi Chizoba P. (2022). Rural Women Involvement in Oil Palm Value Chain in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Canadian Journal of Agriculture and Crops, 7(2): 105-111. Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funding: This study received no specific financial support. Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. History: Received: 7 July 2022/ Revised: 22 August 2022/ Accepted: 5 September 2022/ Published: 19 September 2022 Publisher: Online Science Publishing