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Effects of Communal Conflicts on Agricultural Programmes in Southeast, Nigeria
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The study analysed the effects of communal conflicts on agricultural programmes in Southeast Nigeria using 405 respondents selected through a multistage sampling procedure involving random and purposive sampling techniques. Data were collected from primary sources using a structured questionnaire administered in the form of an interview schedule. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics, multinomial logit regression, and factor analysis. Results showed that the causes of conflicts included boundary dispute (99%), destruction of crops by herders (97%), struggle for power (94%), encroachment into farm land (90%), disregard for local traditional authority (84%), contamination of streams by cattle (76%) and non-compliance with rule (71%), International Fund for Agricultural Development Projects (99%), N-power-Agro (98%), Agricultural Small and Medium
Enterprise Investment Scheme (96%), Agricultural Development Programmes (95%), National Fadama Project (89%) and Agricultural Transformation Agenda (71%) were agricultural programmes in the study area. Conflicts between families, farmers, groups, communities, and herders were significant and negatively related to agricultural programmes. The constraints to mitigating communal conflicts were traditional, political/religious, and institutional constraints. It was concluded that communal conflicts have deleteriously affected agricultural programmes in Southeast Nigeria. It was recommended that herders should be encouraged and assisted to adopt an intensive system of rearing cattle to reduce the increasing farmers-herders’ conflicts, among others.
