Agricultural Extension and Rural Developemnt

This study identified the various farming activities carried out by Nigerian youths and documented emerging trends in their involvement in agriculture with a view to ascertaining their level of involvement in adding value to agricultural produce in Akoko SouthWest local government area (LGA), Ondo State, Nigeria. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 120 youths in 12 communities within the LGA through a questionnaire and interview schedule. A Binary logistic regression was used to make inferences. The results showed that the mean age of the youths was 34±11 years and the mean annual income was N265,280.00±21.159. The youths were found

This study is carried out to identify the personal characteristics affecting the rural youth decision towards agricultural work. It was conducted in AL-Kurgul Administrative Unit of the Nuba Mountains/South Kordufan State, Sudan. The random sampling method was adopted to select 100 respondents. Data were collected in the face-to-face interviews by using a pretested questionnaire and observation. Frequency distribution, percentages, correlation and chi-square, were used for data analysis. The study findings indicated that there is significance negative correlation between age and work in agriculture, while there is no significance correlation between education level and agricultural work. It is also revealed that there is no significant difference between both sexes and marital status variables, and work in agriculture. The study proposed some recommendations to encouraging rural youth to work in agricultural sector and to make the rural areas more attractive. These including provision of incentives like subsidies agricultural inputs, banking facilities and extension services, technical education, vocational training, to equip rural youth with agricultural skills and knowledge, both the public and private sectors may establish small rural industries depending on available agricultural products as a raw materials to absorb the rural youth in workforce. [Allajabou H, and Bello A. Rural Youth and Agriculture 'Problem' in Sudan: A case from the Nuba Mountains. World Rural Observ 2014;6(4):70-74]. ISSN: 1944-6543 (Print); ISSN: 1944-6551 (Online). http://www.sciencepub.net/rural. 11

Abstract
Family farms in Africa are facing several challenges: climatic change,
government economic policies, globalization and many more. One key challenge
is that of farm youths’ changing aspirations vis-a-viz generational succession on
the family farm. Against this background, this paper discusses the findings and
lessons from a larger study which among other things, examined farm youths
aspirations and the prospects of generational succession on the family farm in
Dass LGA of Bauchi State, northeastern Nigeria. A sample of 120 farm youths as
respondents was interviewed and their aspirations towards the future of the
family farm analyzed with help of descriptive statistics and a Likert-type
perception scale. It was found that 16.67% and 77.5% of the respondents
respectively had favourable (< x
- SD) and moderate (x
-SD - x
+SD)
aspirations towards the future of the family farm, while only 5.83% had
unfavourable (> x
+SD) outlooks. In affirming their aspirations, 79% agree
they’re likely to study agriculture in a higher institution, 80% agree they’re likely to
teach own son agriculture, more than 55% disagree they’ll lose interest in
agriculture, while 72% disagree they will likely quit farming. More than 52% of
them agreed that rural-urban migration of youths’ had negative impact on family
farming. Only 28% of them may quit farming in future. This generally positive
outlook of the respondents towards the family farm is a deviation from recent
scenarios in many rural areas. Its implications for generational succession on the
family farm were discussed and policy alternatives for supporting & strengthening
these youths recommended.