Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 21 ISSUE 3
Written by Jonathan Akinsola AKINWALE, Ibukun Joel AGOTOLA

There is the need to rethink how technology is being disseminated to end users in order to ensure adoption and utilisation. This study assessed how pull mechanism is enhancing the utilisation of Aflasafe bio-control measures among maize farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 91 maize farmers for the study. Data was collected from maize farmers through interview schedule and analysed using descriptive statistics (means, frequencies and percentages) and inferential statistics (Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Regression analysis). The result showed that 89% of the farmers indicated Implementers as the outlet for the purchase of Aflasafe. Also, premium payment and provision of technical assistance were the highly ranked incentives to utilisation of Aflasafe among the farmers. The study also revealed low access to credit as major constraint to the utilisation of Aflasafe bi-control measures. Meanwhile, 54% of the farmers had full utilisation of Aflasafe in maize production. Significant correlation was found between incentives and utilisation of Aflasafe (r-value = 0.274; p≤ 0.01). The study therefore recommends that governments and non-governmental organisations should ensure availability of Aflasafe bio-control to the maize farmers either through loan provision or price subsidy.

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