Abstract
Prospects of food crop cultivation and supply center on peasant resilience and their adaptability to the surrounding bio-physical milieu. Farmers’ predisposition to the numerous challenges within their biophysical context makes them resilient and thoughtful in strengthening their skills. The soils, relief, climate and vegetation of Bui Division heighten farmers’ resilience for harmonious, flourishing and innovative techniques to hold the farmers spellbound in their daily farm operations. In addition, vegetables are cultivated abundantly in wetland areas during the dry season. Research results were tested using the relationship between the independent, dependent and the intervening variables of this study. To best operationalize this results, the Chi square and cumulative response rates were strictly applied in the analysis. Research findings revealed that the indigenes spare no effort in ensuring that the milieu is exploited to the fullest, thus reaping the benefits of their hard work. As a matter of fact, agriculture remains the dominant pre-occupation of the locals, however subsidiary activities are not neglected to make ends meet. Peasant dynamism in crop cultivation is central to their social and economic development, thus fostering their adaptability to the bio-physical setting. Crops cultivated include maize, beans, solanum potato, sweet potato, cassava, plantains, banana and yams.
Highlights
The hope for the future in terms of food crop cultivation within the study area lies in farmers’ resilience and their ingenuousness to modern techniques
The results obtained revealed that peasant resilience and stake holders in crop cultivation is gaining grounds within an unstable bio-physical milieu
Peasants within the study area are exposed to numerous challenges that empower them keeping the flames of hard work alive
Summary
The hope for the future in terms of food crop cultivation within the study area lies in farmers’ resilience and their ingenuousness to modern techniques. To boost food crop cultivation, the stakes and challenges depends on farmers’ pliability to innovation, with an adequate regard to their bio-physical setting. Local resilience and attachment in this domain is beyond doubt recognized as a major source of increased output, alleviate poverty, competitiveness, improved income and accompanied economic growth within the area. Agricultural research with its dynamic sphere of innovations strives to homogenously increase output. Agricultural activities have been undergoing innovations in many stages. In Oku, the defunct Kilum Mountain Forest Project (KMFP) brought in various plant species and the project opened demonstration farms in which farmers were trained on how to better manage the new species. Modern methods of farming alongside improved seedlings were introduced.
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