Abstract
Most g overnment agricultural programmes in developing countries are designed following the political ideology of the ruling class and farmers have mixed responses regarding participation . The top – bottom approach adopted in designing these programmes further created dissatisfaction among farmers. Achieving the objectives of these programmes will depend on the level of farmers’ participation . Premised on this, the study determined factors that influence farmers’ participation in government agricultural programme s in the Southern region of Nigeria. Data were collected from 3 9 0 farmers in the study area. Combinations of sampling methods were used to collect data . The Logit model estimates revealed that , household size, dependent ratio, farming experience, years in social organization, land ownership, awareness index, membership in political party, non - farm income, visit by extension agent, male composition in farming population and level of formal education were positive determin ants of farmers’ participation in government agricultural programmes in the study area. On the contrary, farm income and bureaucracy bottleneck involved in these p rogrammes were negative determinants. Perceived constraints to farmers’ participation w ere; b ureaucracy involve; insufficient land for implementation, high transport cost and low awareness . In order to increase farmers’ participation in agricultural based programme in the region, it is recommended that, g overnment should reclaim marginal land and create a policy that will increase land ownership by resource poor farmers in the region. Farmers should be encouraged to form social groups. Massive awareness campaign should be mounted to sensitize farmers on government agricultural programmes in the region . Also, such programmes should be p olitical ly neutral and design following bottom - up approach.
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