APPLICATION OF INDIGENUOUS KNOWLEDGE TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN ENUGU STATE: CONSTRAINTS AND ENHANCEMENT STRATEGIES.

📄 Project Abstract

This research set out to investigate the extent to which Ik has been used, and can still be used to guarantee sustainable agricultural production. The research also studied those constraints that militate against sustained use of the Ik system as well as strategies for enhancing the practices. A survey research was employed for the study. Five research questions were developed and answered based on the purpose of the study. Also, five null hypotheses were formulated and tested at the probability of 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study was 3,562, made up of 484 teachers of agricultural science, 38 agricultural extension agents and 3,040 registered crop and livestock farmers in the state. A structured questionnaire was developed, validated by experts and used to collect data from the 240 respondents. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation, while ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that almost all th...