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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC FERTILIZERS USED AMONG CROP FARMERS IN IKENNE LOCAL GO

Authors: AYO-BELLO Taofeek

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Arable lands are fixed and demand for food is increasing; land holdings are small because of land fragmentation due to an increasing population pressure. Unless land is intensively and more productively used, itâ€™s unlikely to provide enough food for consumption and sale. Land productivity can only improve if soil fertility were improved. To overcome the soil the soil fertility problem, farmers in Ikenne Local government area need fertilization for crop production. Rapid population growth has made Africa to be no longer viewed as a land-abundant region where food crop supply could be increased by expansion of land used in agriculture. This study was conducted with the use purposive sampling techniques, ninety-one (91) crop farmers were selected and data was collected from them using structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. Majority of farmers, 75.8% of respondents had above primary education, 59.3% participated in cooperative societies, 64.8% had no contact with extension agents and 48.4% had at least 15 years of farming experience. It was also revealed that the adoption of only organic fertilizer use increased with credit access and extension contact but declines with increase in farm size and cooperative membership. Also, adoption of the combination of organic and inorganic fertilizers increased farm size, extension access and credits access. The results from this study show that farmersâ€™ adoption of fertilizer is influenced by farm size and extension services among other factors. Special attention need to be paid to these variables when formulating fertilizer use policy. Keywords

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