IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/naprej/415903.html

Drivers of Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) among Farmers in Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria

Author

Listed:
  • Emokpae, O.P.
  • Augustine, C.

Abstract

Despite the potential of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) to mitigate the problems of soil degradation, low productivity, and the adverse effects of climate change in agricultural production, these challenges persist because the adoption of SAPs remains low among farmers in Nigeria. This study therefore analysed the drivers of the adoption decisions of SAPs (crop rotation, organic manure, mulching, intercropping, and cover-cropping) among farmers in Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria. Data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire administered to a cross-section of 288 randomly selected crop farmers in the study area. Data obtained were analysed using descriptive statistics and the Multivariate Probit (MVP) model. Our findings show that crop farmers in the study area are smallholders, with an average of 14 years of formal schooling, 28 years of farming experience, and an average household size of about seven persons. Farmers’ decisions to adopt SAPs exhibited substantial interdependence, mostly complementarity. The drivers of SAPs adoption in the study area comprised formal education, farming experience, household size, off-farm employment, land ownership, farm size, and labour availability. Among these significant drivers, formal education positively influenced the probability of adopting of all the SAPs. Thus, underscoring the crucial role of human capital development in engendering sustainable agricultural production behaviour among farmers in Nigeria

Suggested Citation

  • Emokpae, O.P. & Augustine, C., 2026. "Drivers of Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) among Farmers in Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria," Nigerian Agricultural Policy Research Journal (NAPReJ), Agricultural Policy Research Network (APRNet), vol. 13(1), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:naprej:415903
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.415903
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/415903/files/Emokpae%20et%20al.%2C%20Drivers%20of%20Adoption%20of%20Sustainable%20Agricultural%20Practices%20%28SAPs%29%20among%20Farmers%20in%20Akwa-Ibom%20State%2C.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.415903?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:naprej:415903. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aprneea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.