Binary logist analysis of socioal economic variables an youths participation in Agriculture

Abstract

On a large scale albeit due to conflicts, climate change, acts of terrorism in Sub-Sahara Africa and some other peculiar factors the oddities of food shortage and hunger keep rising in recent years; making it an issue of global concern. To ameliorate the situation, successive governments in Nigeria have invested tremendously in agriculture but to no avail. Making the situation worse is the fact that young people that would have embraced technology in farming are seemingly not seeing desired results; hence they abstain and prefer to seek new ways of sustenance. The general opinion is that the youths of this nation lack interest and that they have not been adequately stimulated or successfully motivated into agriculture; hence they prefer white collar jobs to farming. It is in view of the above reasons that this study chose to corroborate some other studies conducted on some other localities in Nigeria to investigate factors that could really motivate Nigerian youths into agriculture. Hence, we decided to use frequencies, percentage counts, and binary logit to analyse data. Results show that youths’ involvement in agriculture particularly in the study area is over 90%. In addition, age, marital status, and level of education all play some role in who participate in agriculture. Further, the results show that publicity of government pro-youths’ agro allied programmes and the availability of fertile land in the study locality would more than all the other tested factors influence youths’ involvement in agriculture. Hence, government is better informed to properly channel public fund.