The Effect of Agricultural Land Management Practices on the Efficiency of Maize Farmers Production Cost and the Returns in Ogo-Oluwa Local Government Area, Oyo State Nigeria
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This study examined two research questions: (1) what are the effects of land management practices on the efficiency of maize farmers in the Ogo-Oluwa Local Government Area of Oyo State Oyo and (2) what are the costs and returns of maize farmers in the Ogo-Oluwa Local Government Area of Oyo State In a multi-stage random sampling process, 120 maize farmers in the study area were selected and the data was collected using structured questionnaires and interview plans. The first stage involved the targeted selection of the Ogo-Oluwa local government area from the 33 local government areas in Oyo State due to the dominance of rural farmers in that area. The second stage was the random selection of two districts in the local government area. In the third phase, five villages were randomly selected from the two districts to select a total of ten villages. The fourth stage was the proportional selection of twelve local farmers from each village to give the total of one hundred and twenty local farmers from the villages making up the sample size. Descriptive statistics, gross profit analysis and stochastic frontier model were used to analyze the objectives of the study. The result showed that the gross profit analysis of maize production in the study area is profitable, and the main factors affecting the efficiency of farmers were the size of arable land, labor costs, seed costs, fertilizer costs and costs of herbicides. The study concluded that maize production in the study area is profitable and maize farmers are in the middle category of adopters of farming practices. More awareness of the relevance of land management practices is needed among maize farmers.
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