Use Of Urea Deep Placement Technology Among Rice Farmers In Kwara State, North Central Nigeria
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2019
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Published by Fakultas Teknologi Pertanian Universitas Serambi Mekkah
Abstract
Assessing the level farmers’ usage of fertilizer deep placement is
important to improve the efficiency of soil nutrient. Extension
organisations responsible for the dissemination of the technology
will immensely benefit by knowing the level of usage of the
technology for future extension programme implementation. In light
of this, we examined the use of urea deep placement technology
among rice farmers. Frequency count was used to identify rice
farmers that use Urea Deep Placement technology and Pearson
Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was employed to determine
factors associated to use of the technology. The study found that
majority (85.8%) were aware of UDP technology between the year
2012 to 2013 (61.6%) mainly through agricultural extension agents
(55%) and fellow farmers (25%). Majority (81.7%) tried it but few
(11.7%) adopted it. Labour intensiveness (58.3%) is one of the
reasons for non-adoption while the few adopters (10%) adopted
because the technology increases productivity. Age of farmers is
positively related the use of UDP technology. The study focuses on
the use of urea deep placement technology provided by extension
services among farmers; however, these farmers may have an
interest in other types of fertilizer and methods of application that
have not been investigated. The study provides an insight to show
the usage of UDP among farmers engaged in rice production as a
means to improve the efficiency of soil nutrient.
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Constraints, Information sources, Usage, Urea Deep Placement technology