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    Assessment of Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Flood Related Losses in Zone One Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria
    (Book of Proceedings of the 3rd International Mediterranean Scientific Research and Innovation Congress, 2023) Abdullahi, A.; Shuaibu, U.; Muhammad, H.U.; Jibrin, S.; Ahmed, I.I
    This study assesses farmers’ adaptation strategies to flood related losses in zone one area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in the selection of 147 crop farmers. Data obtained were analyzed by the use of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics tool used was the Poisson regression model. The results indicated that crop farmers in the study area have the average age of 43years, dominated by males and were married. Majority about 79.7% of the crop farmers were educated in formal institutions and have a mean household size of 5 people. Also the respondents had the mean of 18years of farming experience and 59.9% owned their land with the mean of 1.4 hectares of land. The study revealed that respondents strongly perceived flood effects of loss in farm produce, loss in quality of yield, loss of farm infrastructure, causes soil degradation, pest challenges. The study findings show that common adaptation strategies adopted by the crop farmers include change in planting date, crop rotation, mixed cropping, planting of cover crops and mulching. Furthermore, the Poisson regression result of the determinants of adaptation strategies to flood showed that age, level of education, farming experience, extension visit, credit, compatibility and cost of practice were statistically significant in making decisions. However, the major severe constraints perceived by the respondents include: poor access to adaptation strategies information, high cost of improved crop varieties, lack of access to weather forecast technology by crop farmers and government irresponsiveness to risk management. Therefore, it was recommended that Extension agencies should provide adequate information on various adaptation strategies to farmers, which was one of the major constraints they face, relevant stakeholders and concerned organization should provide farmers with weather forecast technology, financial institutions should make access to credit facilities to farmers to enable them adopt adaptation strategies.
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    Effects of flood on rice farmer’s food security in Agricultural zone I of Niger State
    (School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology Federal University of Technology, Minna, 2024-12-04) Umar, A., Ogaji, A. and Likita, T.
    This study determined the effects of flood on rice farmers' food security in Agricultural Zone I of Niger State. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 127 rice farmers affected by flood and 127 rice farmers not affected by flood. Primary data were used for this study. The data were collected with the assistance of a well-trained enumerator using questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and logit regression) were used to achieve the objectives. The result showed that 96.1% of rice farmers not affected by flood were food secured while 73.2% affected farmers were food secured. The coefficient of household size, extension access, cooperative, farm income, value of crop loss due to flood and days farm had effect on food security. Raising seed bed (X=4.59). Planting flood resistance seeds (X =4.50) were the most coping strategies adopted by rice farmers affected by flood to mitigate effects of flood while emergency water storage (X=4.40), agricultural insurance of farm (X=4.40) were the most coping strategies adopted by rice farmers not affected by flood to mitigate flood. It is recommended that rice farmers affected by flood to insure their farm in order to avert unforeseen circumstances. Rice farmers should put every measure in place to control floods in the study area. It is recommended that post-flood soil rehabilitation be adopted to mitigate the negative effect of flood.