International Journal of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development ISSN: 2716-7969 Vol. 6(1), pp. 141-146, May, 2020.  © Advanced Scholars Journals

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Determinants of land management practice and soil conservation on Maize farmers' production in Ogun State, Nigeria

Omotoso AB¹, Daud SA², Ayodele MA ³, Ajibade AJ³ and Rasaki WA¹

¹Department of Cooperative Economics and Management, Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, P.M.B. 10, Igboora

²Department of Agricultural Extension and Management, Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, P.M.B. 10, Igboora

³Department of Agricultural Technology, Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, P.M.B. 10, Igboora

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Accepted 31 March, 2020

Abstract 

The study examined the determinants of various land management practices and conservation methods on maize farmers’ output in Ogun state, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 240 maize farmers in the study area. Interview schedule was used to elicit needed information such as age, land conservative/management practice and production characteristics of maize farmer in the study area. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistic and stochastic production function (SPF). The result revealed that 70.8%, 70.5% and 89.2% were male, married and literate respectively with mean household size estimated at 4 persons. About 33.0%, 9.2% and 1.0% adopted planting cover crop, mulching and fertilizer application respectively as means of land management practices while 28.3% and 48.3% of the farmers adopted crop rotation and mixed cropping as land conservation practices. SPF showed that farm size (p<0.01), labour (p<0.01), land management practice (p<0.01) and land conservation practice (p<0.01) have a significant influence on maize production in the study area. The study concluded that land management practice and land conservation practice were determinant factor in maize production. The study recommended that government should encourage research that will be of farmer specific for awareness to be created on how to improve the quality of farm management practices.

 keywords: Land Management, Stochastic Production Function, Cover crops.