Endüstriyel Çevresel Kirlilik Yönetimi İçin Potansiyeller: Güney-Batı, Nijerya'daki Orta ve Büyük Ölçekli Agro-Birlik Sanayilerinin Kurumsal Özelliklerinin Bütüncül Karşılaştırmalı Bir Çalışması
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Industrial pollution remains one of the most persistent environmental challenges facing developing economies, particularly in regions experiencing rapid agro‑industrial expansion. The study analysed the potentials for environmental pollution management in relation to medium and large scale agro-allied industries (MandLSAAI). One objective and one hypothesis guided the conduct of the study. The result showed that majority of MSAAI (47.5%) and LSAAI (49.2%) have existed between 41 and 60 years with mean of 43.52 years and 57.74 years respectively. Majority (59.5% and 61.5%) of agro-allied industries were food processing industries while a smaller proportion (11.7% and 6.2%) revealed textile and Ginnery industry for MSAAI and LSAAI respectively. The result on estimated net profit revealed that majority of MSAAI (62.5%) had profit between ₦3,100,000.00 and ₦9,000,000,000 with an average profit of ₦3,796,171.00. The study revealed the main industrial activity of medium and large scale agro-allied industries to be food processing, as indicated by the largest single proportion of firms (40.1% and 43.1%) respectively. The result on formal training on environmental pollution control revealed that majority (62.6% and 53.8%) have had formal training on environmental pollution control just once for medium and large scale agro-allied industries respectively. Majority of medium (78.8%) and large (89.2%) scale agro-allied industries had no electricity supply caused by transformer faults in a given year. Furthermore, majority (74.8% and 66.2%) of medium and large scale agro-allied industries utilize smart electrical metering making monthly electricity cost expenditures of ₦76,712.84 and ₦121,500.00 respectively. The mean distance of agro-allied industries to dumpsite is 8.2348km and 9.2348km for MandLSAI. The study concluded that the institutional characteristics of medium and large-scale industries are major determining factors to their management levels of environmental pollution. The study recommended that pollution control campaigns should be organised by NGOs to educate the industries on how to manage their wastes.
Institutions: University of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Language: English
Subfield: Marketing
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7219156020