Volume 5, Number 3

An Assessment of Agricultural Production Practices in Dogon Kurmi District, Kagarko L.G.A
of Kaduna State, Nigeria

  Authors

Dogo Simeon, Kaduna State College of Education GidanWaya, Nigeria

  Abstract

The main purpose of the research is to assess agricultural production practices in DogonKurmi District, Kagarko L.G.A of Kaduna State. The research seeks to identify the sources and size of farmlands use by people in the area, identify the type of farming practices use on farmlands in the area, examine the sources of the technology used by farmers on their farmland, and to examine the impact and economic implication of modern ways of farming on agricultural production in the area. The study uses hundred numbers (100) questionnaires that were shared to respondents in the study area to obtained information regarding agricultural production practices. The data were analyzed through the use of descriptive statistical techniques and presented using percentage, tables, and figures. Findings from the study showed that local hoes and cutlasses is what most of the farmers in the study area make use of for their agricultural production on their farmland as that is what most of them could afford having 62.2%. The farmers in the area says that since involving in agricultural production, there have been a positive shift in their income and expenditure level and that in a year they do make N60,000 and above in the sale of agricultural produces having 57.14% to meet up with their daily basic need. The study therefore concludes that farmers in the in the study area do not make use of modern technology like tractors and harvester on their farmland but uses implement like local hoes, cutlasses, and cows on their farmland to carry out their agricultural production because most of them could not afford hiring a tractor and harvester on their farmland because it’s expensive and the government is not supporting them by providing loans to aid their hire those modern technology.

  Keywords

Agriculture, Agricultural Sector, Dogon Kurmi District..