@article{Mailumo:267477,
      recid = {267477},
      author = {Mailumo, S. S. and Adepoju, S. O. and Tankari, A. B.},
      title = {ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND MITIGATION RESPONSE BY  FARMERS IN DANKO/WASAGU LGA OF KEBBI STATE NIGERIA},
      journal = {Nigerian Journal of Agricultural Economics},
      address = {2011},
      number = {2066-2018-579},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {The paper assessed farmer’s mitigating practices to land  degradation in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area (LGA) of  Kebbi State. Four (4) districts were randomly selected out  of eight (8) districts that made up the LGA. They included  Kainya, Ribah, Waji, and Wasagu. Random sampling technique  was employed to select 20 farmers from each of the four (4)  districts giving a sample size of 80 farmers. Data were  collected using structured questionnaire and analyzed using  descriptive statistics and logit regression model. Result  showed that 43% of the respondents experienced slightly  severe degradation on their farmlands while 13% witnessed  severe degradation. However, the study found that clearing  and burning of shrubs on farms and planting of sole cereals  were the major causes of land degradation (28%); and  grazing by animals (25%). The logit regression model shows  that water channels, level of education, planting of trees,  mulching and land tenure arrangement had positive  coefficients. Conversely, coefficients of farm size, family  size and cover crops had inverse influence as practices to  the mitigation of land degradation. The marginal effects of  the independent variables on the dependent variable  revealed that on the average, a 1 percent increase in the  creation of water channels for example, leads to a 0.77  percent increase in the probability of applying land  degradation measures in the study area, holding all else  constant. To preserve the farm lands, the identified causes  of land degradation should be remedied.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/267477},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.267477},
}