Review of Contemporary Business Research

Entrepreneurial Skills Required by Secondary School Graduates for Economic Success in Honey Production in Kogi State, Nigeria
Okeme Isaac, Ekele Garba Emmanuel, Anam Blessing

Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the entrepreneurial skills required by secondary school graduates for economic success in honey production in Kogi State, Nigeria. A survey research design was used for the study. Two research questions guided the study, two null hypotheses were posited and tested at 0.05 level of significance with 37 skill item questionnaires. The instrument was face validated by three experts in the unit of Agricultural education in the department of vocational and special education of the University of Calabar with reliability coefficient of 0.92 using Cronbach alpha method. This was administered to a simple purposive sample of thirty (50) male bee farmers and ten (30) female bee farmers drawn from a population of two hundred and seventy one (271) bee farmers. Skill Required Index (SRI) was used to answer the research question while independent t–test analysis was used to test the hypothesis. The result of data analysis revealed that all the 40 skills identified in the study were required by secondary school graduates for economic success in honey production enterprise. Based on these findings appropriate recommendations were made.

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