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The study examined socio-cultural barriers on Economic Empowerment of Rural Women through Entrepreneurship in Agriculture in South East State Nigeria. The objectives were to examine the effect of socio-cultural barriers on girl early child bearing on rural women entrepreneurship ability in South East Nigeria; the effect of lack of education and skills on rural women entrepreneurship; and the effect of government neglect on economic empowerment of rural women entrepreneurial activities. Random sampling method was employed in selecting 45 co-operative societies from three South-East states. The population for the study was 513 and this served as the sample size. A structured questionnaire prepared in 5-point Likert Scale was administered to the respondents for data collection. Chi Square (X2) Statistical tool was used to test the hypotheses and SPSS Version 20. The study revealed that socio-cultural barrier on girl child early marriage affecting the rural women has significant effect on rural women entrepreneurship ability in South East Nigeria; this was true since the calculated value of X2(3476.870) is ? the critical value (9.49) of X 2. I was also found out that lack of education and skills have significant effect on rural women entrepreneurship ability. This was shown in the calculated value of X2(3211.105) ? critical value (9.49) of X2. The study observed that to a very large extent government neglect on rural women economic empowerment in entrepreneurial activities significantly affects their capabilities. The calculated value of X2(531.413) is ? the critical value (9.49) of X2.
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