Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment
Vol 1,
Issue 3&4,2003
Online ISSN: 1459-0263
Print ISSN: 1459-0255
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Adoption rate and continued use of selected arable crop technologies among farmers in Oyo State Nigeria
Author(s):
O. I. Oladele *,
A. I. KareemRecieved Date: 2003-02-17, Accepted Date: 2003-10-12
Abstract:Adoption and continued use of any new technology is a dynamic process which will change over time and may be influenced by a wide range of factors such as changes in funding, administration, linkage system and delivery system will reflect in the sustained use of technologies. A multi-stage random sampling process was used to select one hundred and eighty farmers representing ten percent of the farmers. 72.2% were high adopters while the remaining 27.8% were in the low adopter category. For maize and cassava, fertilizer use and fertilizer application have the least adoption rate 75.6% and 30.6% respectively. For cowpea planting distance, storage practices, seed dressing, and spraying and for yam the use of improved varieties, seed/sett dressing had the lowest adoption rate. In the total continued use of the technologies tested about 16 percent have a score 1- 24 and they are regarded as low continued users. 34.3% of the respondents still using 25-36 of the adopted technologies they classified as medium continued user. High continued user are those farmers that are still using 37-48 (49.4%) of the tested technologies.
Keywords:Farms,
production, environment, innovationJournal: Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment
Year: 2003
Volume: 1
Issue: 3&4
Category: Environment
Pages: 291-294
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