SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING SMALLHOLDER IRRIGATED RICE FARMERS PARTICIPATION IN CONTRACT FARMING IN SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KANO RIVER IRRIGATION PROJECT
Abstract
ABSTRACT
This study was designed to determine the socioeconomic factors influencing smallholder
irrigated rice farmers' participation in contract farming in some selected local government
area of Kano River Irrigation Project (KRIP), Kano State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling
procedure was used to select 254 respondents for the study comprising of 127 contract
farmers and another 127 non-contract farmers. Both inferential and descriptive statistics
were used in the analysis of data. The mean age of respondents was found to be 35years,
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9.8% were males, and 10.2% females. The mean household size was 6 persons with a
mean landholding of 1.3ha. Factors influencing contract rice farming participation
include; age which had a coefficient value of 0.043 and significant at 5%, rice farm size
had a coefficient value of 1.037 and significant at 10%. Lack of physical strength and
energy (23.6%), Small farm sizes (15%) and Limited membership in farmers' groups (7.9%),
It was therefore concluded that some socioeconomic characteristics affect the ability of
farmer's participation in contract rice farming. The study recommends that pro-contract
rice farming policies that might have a long term positive effect on the farmers’
socioeconomics should be developed.
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