Land Management Practices on Cassava Production in Akinyele Local Government Area, Oyo State Nigeria
Journal Title: Scientia Agriculturae - Year 2016, Vol 15, Issue 1
Abstract
Sustainable agricultural practices and food security have been major activities in reducing poverty level in a farming system especially among Nigerian farmers, therefore the study analyzed the land management practices on cassava production in Akinyele local government area of Oyo state using descriptive and multiple regression analysis; data for the study was collected from 92 farmers from the three villages namely Olanla, Moniya and Akinyele with the use of a well structured questionnaire. The study revealed that 75.0% were male, 48.9% were married, 78.5% were between 41 and 71 years old, 76.1% had one form of formal education, 60.9% had 1-5 household size while 38% had 6-10 household size, 57.6% use hired labour, 77.2% practice commercial farming system, 37.0% of the farmers produce between 20-100 bags (50kg /bag) of cassava per hectare. The study also revealed that farm size 0.687 was positive and significant at 1%, extension agent visit -0.341 was negative but significant at 1%, labour used 0.144 was positively significant at 10%, while time visit -0.244 and cover crop -0.148 were also negative but significant at 5% level. R2 was 0.664 which means 66.4% account for the level of variation in the cassava output in the study area. The study therefore recommended that extension workers should be made available and more attention paid to the rural farmers in order to increase their production activities; cover cropping should be encouraged; while bush burning practice by farmer should be discouraged in order to sustain production.
Authors and Affiliations
I. O Oyewo, A. O Adepoju, M. O Ojo, E. O Oyewo, G. O Atanda
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- EP ID EP107063
- DOI 10.15192/PSCP.SA.2016.15.1.329333
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