Survey on Soil Conservation Practices among Food Crop Farmers in Zing Local Government Area of Taraba State, Nigeria

Philip, H. J.; Ngala, Adam Lawan

doi:10.9734/ijpss/2015/19090

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“…An estimated mean annual loss of about 25 million tons of crop productive capacity according to Olatunji, (2003) as cited in James and Ngala, (2015b) has been attributed to land degradation with attendant consequences of low yield, famine, low standard of living, reduction in availability of fuelwood, food insecurity, poverty and ultimately rural-urban migration. On the other hand, Salako and Tian, (2003) as cited in James and Ngala, (2015b) noted that farms which adopt soil and water conservation practices did have increased yields compared to the farms which did not, even as they operate in the same agro-ecological zone or region. Therefore, soil productivity maintenance in the short and long run is an important crux of conservation of both soil and groundwater to boost food crop production.…”

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Farmers' Preference for Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Nigeria: Analytic Hierarchic Process Approach

Olawuyi

2018

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Enhancing agricultural production through sustainable soil/land and water conservation practices are vital to the sustenance of the human race as entrenched in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2, 12 and 15 respectively. Smallholder farmers are faced with myriads of soil and water-related issues in production which make them vulnerable to land degradation and low productivity. This calls for policies to enhance sustainable food production; hence, the need for this study which highlighted the influencing dynamics governing the preference and use of SWC practices alternatives in Nigeria with particular reference to Osun State. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in this study to select the representative sample of 240 respondents. Data collected through primary source include information on selected farmersâ€™ socioeconomic attributes, institutional and farm level characteristics as well as the SWC practices prevalent in the study area. The SWC practices highlighted in this study include: Soil Management/Amendment Practices (SAP), Agronomic Practices (AP) and Cultivation Practices (CP). The data collected were analyzed with crosstabulation analysis, AHP technique and the logit regression model. The results from AHP revealed that Agronomic Practices (AP) is the most preferred and used SWC practice option in the study area while marginal effects of the logit regression revealed that age, gender, years of formal education, membership of local level institutions, access to extension services and frequency of extension visit as well as farmersâ€™ perception on the impact of extension visit are significant influencing dynamics governing the rural farmersâ€™ preference and use of SWC practices alternatives in the study area. Hence, concerted efforts should be geared towards developing pro-farmers policies in line with these influencing dynamics.

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