Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences

Year: 2008
Volume: 5
Issue: 8
Page No. 785 - 792

Comparative Assessment of Adopted Farming Operations of Farmers in Proximate, Intermediate and Remote Cement Producing Precincts of Ogun State

Authors : Onasanya Adewale Sesan

Abstract: The investigation was conducted in cement producing areas (Sagamu and Ewekoro) of Ogun State located in south-western part of Nigeria. The areas were divided into three distinct precincts: proximate (0-5 km2), Intermediate (5.1-10 km2) and remote (10.1-15 km2). From each precinct, 20% of villages were randomly selected. However, from villages not having 500, 5% farming households were selected, while 10% from villages having 500. This procedure led to the selection of 1114 farmers with 482 from Proximate CPPs, 259 from Intermediate CPPs and 373 from Remote CPPs. However, 1020 research instruments were found usable for final analysis. Data collected were subjected to analysis of variance. The findings show that farmers engaged in different farming operations in cement producing precincts of Ogun State. The common farming operations in all cement producing precincts include manual clearing (97.7%), harvesting (96.6%), weeding (96.2%), planting (91.9%) and marketing of products (84.4%). Others are ridging (73.9%) and processing of farm products (52.7%). However, the findings shows that in all the cement producing precincts, most farmers are not engaged in mulching, staking, slashing, storage of products, rearing and breeding of animals and zero tillage. Also, the findings shows that significant difference exists in the farming operations of farmers in proximate (= 6.67), intermediate (= 6.1) and remote (= 5.82) cement producing precincts of Ogun State (F = 33.77; p<0.05) as revealed by Scheffe�s post hoc test. It shows that significant differences exist in the farming operations of farmers in proximate cement producing precinct and intermediate cement producing precinct. Also, significant difference exists in the proximate cement producing precinct and remote cement producing precinct as well as in intermediate cement producing precinct and remote cement producing precinct of Ogun State. It was concluded that farmers engage in different farming operations across cement producing precincts in Ogun State in other to cope with environmental problems. Also, farmers in proximate cement producing precinct engage in more farming operations followed by intermediate precinct and less in remote precinct. Thus, farmers that are relatively close to the cement company are facing more farming problems than farmers that are located far away from the company. Though, it is expected that pollution and other environmental problems would make farming activities less enticing in proximate cement producing precinct, the study shows farmers that are close to the cement industry would have to engage more farming operations to reduce the impact of pollution on their soil and crops than farmers that are far away from the industry to be able to produce sufficient food for their households.

How to cite this article:

Onasanya Adewale Sesan , 2008. Comparative Assessment of Adopted Farming Operations of Farmers in Proximate, Intermediate and Remote Cement Producing Precincts of Ogun State. Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 5: 785-792.

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