TY  - EJOU
AU  - 
T1  - Productivity of Farmland Values in Food Crop Production in the Natural Disasters Prone Areas of Imo State, Nigeria
T2  - International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Research

PY  - 2016
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
SN  - 2312-6477

AB  - This study analyzed productivity of farmland values in food crop 
production in natural disasters prone areas of Imo State, Nigeria.  The 
study specifically determined farmland   values, productivity of food 
crop farmers by farmland values, and factors influencing food crop 
farmers productivity in the different farmland values. Data were 
collected with questionnaire from 280 proportionately and randomly 
selected food crop farmers. Data were analyzed using descriptive 
statistics, farmland value model, productivity model, and multiple 
regression techniques. Results showed that farmland suitability index 
ranged from < 0.499 to 0.948 with a mean of 0.350.Majority (72.1%) of
 the farmers cultivated on non-suitable farmlands, 22.9% of them 
cultivated on marginally suitable farmlands while few (5%) of the 
farmers cultivated on suitable farmlands, implying that majority of the 
farmlands cultivated for food crop production in the study area are not 
suitable. Food crop farmers’ productivity increases with suitability of 
farmland and the productivity of farmland increases from 1.35 to 2.25 
and 3.14 as farmland moves from non-suitable to marginally suitable and 
suitable values respectively, thus making marginally suitable and 
suitable farmlands about 48% and 133% higher in farmland  productivity 
than non-suitable farmlands. Farmland rent, quantity of fertilizer 
applied, quantity of organic manure applied, education  level, quality 
of planting materials, and distance of farmland from  farmer’s home have
 significant influence on marginally suitable farmlands productivity. 
Farm size, quantity of fertilizer applied, quantity of organic manure 
applied, farming experience, and quality of planting materials 
significantly influenced suitable farmlands productivity. Crop farmers 
cultivating non-suitable farmland should explore measures to improve the
 fertility of their farmlands or minimize wastage of production 
resources through reduction in the size of farmlands, cultivated.
KW  - Productivity
KW  - Farmland values
KW  - Food crop
KW  - Imo state
KW  - farmers
KW  - Farmland suitability index
KW  - Natural disaster.
DO  - 10.18488/journal.70/2016.3.2/70.2.42.48