Abstract
The study on farmers’ attitude towards improved agricultural technologies was carried out to investigate the farmers’ attitudes, demographic, economic, socio-cultural and environmental characteristics as well as the contribution to sustained use index of these and some other independent variables. Two hundred and eight (208) farmers/respondents consisting of 133 that adopted and sustained the use of agricultural technologies and 75 that abandoned the use of already adopted technologies were selected from 5 zones of agricultural development programmes in Oyo, Osun and Ondo States using a multi-stage random sampling procedure. Structured interview schedules as well as in-depth study devices were used to collect data, which were analyzed using appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics. Sustained users had a higher level of each of these variables. However, it was found that farmers that sustained the use of technologies were not significantly different in the adoption pattern of technology (F = 0.26), extension contact (F = 0.16), attitude towards improved technology (F = 0.21) and organizational membership (F = 1.16) across the states. Agricultural technologies developed and disseminated should meet farmers’ socio-cultural, economic and environmental changing situations and technologies should be cost effective and flexible for result oriented adoption and adaptation is therefore, recommended. Key words: Attitude, farmers, agricultural technologies.
Highlights
Agricultural development has been described as the shift from traditional methods of production to the use of modern techniques (Swanson and Claar, 1984)
As the transformation type, which is the creation of capital-intensive projects and secondly, the improvement approach, which is the diffusion of high pay-off agricultural inputs and improved practices, derived from research institutes by extension agents and input supply organizations to small-scale farmers
The second stage of the sampling procedure consists of purposive selection of two zones of Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) per state; only one zone was eventually considered fit for Ondo State for logistic reasons
Summary
Agricultural development has been described as the shift from traditional methods of production to the use of modern techniques (Swanson and Claar, 1984). This has affected Nigeria as a two-way strategy at various times. As the transformation type, which is the creation of capital-intensive projects and secondly, the improvement approach, which is the diffusion of high pay-off agricultural inputs and improved practices, derived from research institutes by extension agents and input supply organizations to small-scale farmers. Insect specific chemicals and biological insect controls are being utilized, instead of broadspectrum pesticides, which reduce the number of sprays needed along with costs
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