Soil Fertility Management Practice Among Arable Crop Farmers in Ifedore Local Government, Ondo State, Nigeria

The research was conducted to understand the farming system with regards to soil fertility management practices among rural food crop growers in the local government of Ifedore in Ondo State. A multistage, random, and cluster technique of sampling was employed to choose 120 respondents for the research, descriptive and inferential statistics were both utilized to analyze results. Investigations showed that the average age was 47.5 years which implies that a significant number of arable crop farmers are active and predominantly in their Middle Ages, the overall farm average was 3.7 hectares, indicating that the majority of respondents were small-scale farmers, the average number of crop growers’ children was 4 children, the average farming experience in years is 18.7 years, indicating that most farmers had significant experience in arable crop production. A majority of the farmers practiced crop rotation and alley cropping. A majority (71.7%) of farmers received information on soil fertility management through radio. 58.3% of the farmers practiced intercropping as an indigenous soil fertility management practice. The correlation outcome showed that years of farming experience and soil fertility management techniques are significantly correlated. The chi-square result indicated that no significance exists between the source of soil fertility knowledge and the management techniques for soil fertility. As a result, it is necessary that considering the significance, programs should be implemented to improve soil fertility management techniques among arable farmers in the research region.