ANALYSIS OF LAND USE modification AND ITS impact ON cultivatable CROP PRODUCTION IN SOUTH WEST, NIGERIA

This study analysed land use amendment and its result on tillable crop production in South West, Nigeria. Primary information used for this study were collected from a hundred and eighty tillable crop farmers within the study space. The analytical techniques that were used embrace descriptive statistics; multivariate analysis analysis and also the Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). it had been disclosed that the typical age of the tillable crop farmers was concerning 5510.29. Majority of the respondents are males and are married, with a mean menage size of concerning seven persons. the typical farm size was one.85ha, whereas the typical years of farming expertise was concerning twelve years. The study finished that though agricultural purpose remained the predominant purpose of land use within the study space, the full area antecedently allotted for agricultural functions suffered the best reduction from all known land use purposes within the study area. Scale of production, fulltime farming and farm financial gain are the known factors that scale back the conversion of tillable land into non-agricultural uses, whereas population density, land possession kind, land sales right, land lease right and non-farm financial gain were the factors that considerably increase the conversion of tillable land into non-agricultural uses within the study space. it had been additionally finished that increase in tillable land is completely related to with increase in total arable crop production within the study space. This study, however, suggested that practices that promotes the economical and optimum use of land for agricultural functions such business tillable crop production ought to be inspired among the folks of the study area; which relevant government agencies saddled with the regulation of land use in Nigeria, through the right implementation of the country’s land use act, ought to shield the fertile tillable lands that are dedicated to agricultural production and make sure that they're not regenerate to alternative non-agricultural functions.

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