An Evaluation of Youths Involvement in Agriculture and Adoption of Agricultural Technology Information

摘要

Agricultural production in Nigeria is largely subsistence and characterized by primitive tools and the preponderance of matured and ageing farmers. In Adamawa state, the youths constitute the larger percentage of farm labour. But soliciting for their continued involvement in farming is threatened by several production constraint and drudgery involved in farming. This study seeks to determine the level of involvement of the youths in farming, identify factors considered as hindrances to continuous involvement in farming among others. Two local government areas namely Mubi North and South were purposively selected and data were on several variables. Findings indicated that majority of the youths involved in farming activities are of the male sex, they are married and into mixed farming as a source of livelihood. The study showed that cereals and legumes are largely cultivated by the youths. Farm activities of interest to the youths are cultivation, weeding, fertilizer application and harvesting. The level of involvement in farming was influenced largely the nature of involvement in farming, number of wives, marital status, household size. While an independent association was found between sex, educational attainment and the level of involvement in farming. Variation was not observed for the level of involvement in farming across the two locations studied. The level of involvement in farming was determined largely by age, sex, educational status, household size and number of wives.