Percentage of Ondo State
Small-Scale Farmers Who Are Female, by Main Crop Grown
Female farmers
as a percentage of total
35
20
10
5
0
SAT WARMUPS
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.
north Ondo
central Ondo
south Ondo
Ondo State region cereals
• root crops
non-root vegetables
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,