Effect of Subsidize Fertilizer on Smallholder Farmers Agricultural Productivity in Kano State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study analysed the effect of subsidize fertilizer and factors affecting smallholder farmer’s agricultural productivity in Kano state, Nigeria. The study adopts cross sectional survey design and employs descriptive statistic and OLS regression model to analyzed data using multiple regression. The data was collected from a sample of 555 randomly selected smallholder farmers from Kura, Bunkure and Danbatta LGAs. The result reveals that the mean ages of the respondents were 36 years and majority of them were males. The multiple regressions show that farming experience is statistically significant at 1% significant level, age is statistically significant at 5% level of significant, improved seeds has 1% level of significant, farm size is statistically significant at 1% level of significant and subsidized fertilizer is also highly significant at 1% level of significant. Finding of the study shows that access to subsidize fertilizer has not been sufficient for various reasons as shown in the study. Hence the study recommends that government should device better means of distributing fertilizers so as to reach the smallholder farmers and monitoring of the distribution of subsidize fertilizer to farmers.