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Determinants of preference for land management practices among food crop farmers in North-Central Nigeria
Abstract
The study examines the factors determining the use of land management practices among food crop farmers in North-Central, Nigeria. Data were collected from 345 farmers using multistage sampling technique and analyzed with multinomial logit model. The results showed that both traditional and modern land management practices coexist in the study area. The variables that significantly explained the use of land management practices (p<0.05) were age of household heads, levels of education, household size, value of livestock owned, off farm income, security of tenure, farm size, distance of plot to residence, distance of plot to the nearest market and distance of plot to all weathered road. Factors that explained the choice of land management practices in the study area were combinations of human, physical and financial capitals as well as parcel or plot level and institutional factors.
Keywords: Preference, Land Management Practices, Food Crop Farmers, Multinomial logit model, and North-Central Nigeria
