ANALYSIS OF LAND USE modification AND ITS impact ON tillable CROP PRODUCTION IN SOUTH WEST, NIGERIA

This study analysed land use modification and its result on cultivatable crop production in South West, Nigeria. Primary knowledge used for this study were collected from one hundred eighty cultivatable crop farmers within the study space. The analytical techniques that were used embrace descriptive statistics; multivariate analysis analysis and therefore the Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). it had been unconcealed that the typical age of the cultivatable crop farmers was concerning 5510.29. Majority of the respondents ar males and ar married, with a median social unit size of concerning seven persons. the typical farm size was one.85ha, whereas the typical years of farming expertise was concerning twelve years. The study terminated that though agricultural purpose remained the predominant purpose of land use within the study space, the whole {land space|acreage|area|expanse|surface area} antecedently allotted for agricultural functions suffered the best reduction from all known land use functions within the study area. Scale of production, fulltime farming and farm financial gain ar the known factors that cut back the conversion of cultivatable land into non-agricultural uses, whereas population density, land possession sort, land sales right, land lease right and non-farm financial gain were the factors that considerably increase the conversion of cultivatable land into non-agricultural uses within the study space. it had been additionally terminated that increase in cultivatable land is completely correlative with increase in total cultivatable crop production within the study space. This study, however, suggested that practices that promotes the economical and optimum use of land for agricultural functions such industrial cultivatable crop production ought to be inspired among the individuals of the study area; which relevant government agencies saddled with the regulation of land use in Nigeria, through the right implementation of the country’s land use act, ought to defend the fertile cultivatable lands that ar dedicated to agricultural production and make sure that they're not reborn to different non-agricultural functions.

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Posted April 11, 2019 04:02