Abstract

The study assessed the adoption level of climate-smart agricultural practices by smallholder rice farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria. Cross-sectional survey approach was adopted. A multistage sampling procedure was used to selected 424 samples from the population of 3,727 smallholder rice farmers from the three agricultural zones in Kwara State. Four research questions were raised. Interview schedule was designed by the researcher as instrument for data collection. Data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics in form of percentage, frequency counts, mean and standard deviation. The results indicated high adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices in the study area. It is recommended that Kwara State Government and Non-governmental organizations should provide incentives inform of subsidized inputs to farmers.

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