Technology adoption and utilization among cassava farmers in Ogun state, Nigeria

The main objective of this research work was to find out the adoption and utilization of technology among cassava farmers in the study area. A multistage random sampling procedure was adopted to collect primary data from 80 sampled cassava farmers who were randomly selected from some selected communities in the study area. Descriptive statistics, logit regression analysis and budgetary analysis were used to analyze the data collected. The result revealed that majority of the respondents have low formal education, as about 68% of the farmers only attended primary school, 67% ofrespondents fall within the age bracket of 31 to 50 years. It is revealed that 91% of the farmers are married with an average income of N34,153.21. The coefficient offarmer's age and education is positive meaning that as farmers age increase by one unit, the probability of adopting improved technologies will also increase. The budgetary analysis revealed that the average total revenue is N34,153.52, the average farmer's net income is N22,094.99 and gross margin is N25,818.77 with the profitability index as 0.6469. It has been recommended that the government should provide incentives for the farmers as well as increasing the rate of visit of extension agents in the study area so as to boost their level of adoption of technologies on cassava farming.