Socioeconomic Perspectives to Arable Crop Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Ebonyi North Zone, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Umeh G.N, Chukwu V.A

Abstract: Socioeconomic Perspectives to Arable Crop Farmer-Herder conflicts in Ebonyi North Zone of Ebonyi State, Nigeria was studied. A combination of purposive, systematic and simple random sampling techniques was employed in the selection of 172 respondents (160 farmers and 12 herdsmen). Primary data were sourced through field survey, with the aid of a well-structured questionnaire and interview schedule. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed in data analysis. Result showed that majority (96.3 percent) of the farmers were males and belong to age bracket of 51-60 years (29.4percent) and were mostly married (83.8 %). Further analysis showed that all the herdsmen were males with no formal education. The age of majority (31.3 percent) ranged between 31-40 years while 87.50 percent were married. The result of probit analyses showed Chi-square values of 5346.00 and 1283.124 for farmers and herders respectively. This shows the goodness of fit of the models. The overall model was statistically significant (P

Keywords: Conflicts, Fulani Herdsmen, Arable Crops Farmers, Socio-economic Perspective, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

How to Cite?: Umeh G.N, Chukwu V.A, "Socioeconomic Perspectives to Arable Crop Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Ebonyi North Zone, Ebonyi State, Nigeria", Volume 5 Issue 5, May 2016, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 135-142, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=NOV163183, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/NOV163183

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