Farm Productivity among Small Scale Vegetable Farmers in Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria

Isaac. O. Oyewo, (PhD), K. O. Adelalu, Oyedele M. D and E.O. Oladipupo-Alade
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Isaac. O. Oyewo, (PhD): Federal College of Forestry, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN, M.B. 5087 Jericho, Ibadan Oyo State Nigeria
K. O. Adelalu: Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, P.M.B 4000 Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Oyedele M. D: Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), P.M.B. 5054 Jericho, Ibadan Nigeria
E.O. Oladipupo-Alade: Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), P.M.B. 5054 Jericho, Ibadan Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science, 2021, vol. 6, issue 7, 01-07

Abstract: The study examined small scale vegetable farmer’s farm productivity in Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria, using cross sectional data, well-structured questionnaire was use to collect primary data from sixty vegetable farmers and analysed with use of descriptive, frequency, mean and inferential statistics. The result of the study showed that 55% of the vegetable farmers were male and between the working ages of 41- 50 years with mean age of 43.13 years, 75% were married with mean family size of 7 persons, and 63.6% of the farmers had one form of formal education, 75% of them source their credit through personal savings, 41.8% had between 11-20 years of farming experience with mean years of 16.87 years of experience, 54.8% had income of N 5000- N 22,000, 68.4% source their farm land through renting, 36.7% had farm size between 1.0-4. 9 hectares, 88.5% adopt inorganic fertilizer for vegetable production and almost all (93.6%) depends on rain fed vegetable farming. The inferential statistics revealed that farming experience (β=0.573, p

Date: 2021
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