Abstract
The study specifically examined socio-economic factors of farmers, causes of deforestation and their effects on the quantity of output produced by households in the area. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to select three local government areas and 90 respondents respectively. Date were collected with the aid of a structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. The findings of the study showed that majority of the respondents were middle aged men (mean age is 43years), illiterates with farming as their primary occupation having an average household size of eight persons. The study also revealed that an increase in farm size exerts more pressure on the available land thus leading to increase in food productivity and availability. Also, the total area deforested increases with an increase in the quantity of firewood used by the household. Result of the regression analysis gave the exponential function as the lead equation with R of 0.911, very high F. statistic value of 46.57 and has the highest occurrence of significant variables at 5% risk level. Finally, the result showed that age, educational level, household size and farm size were the most important determinants of the output level while sex, marital status and occupation of the farmers were non-significant.
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