EFFECTS OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION INTERVENTION PROGRAMME ON FARMERS’ MILLET YIELD IN SELECTED INSURGENCY AFFECTED COMMUNITIES OF BORNO STATE, NIGERIA

This study assessed the effect of FAO intervention programme on Millet (Pennisitum glaucum) yield in some selected insurgency affected communities in Borno State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure (involving both purposive and stratified) was used to select 384 farmers for the study. Data were obtained with the aid of questionnaire and analysed using Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. Findings of the study reveal that majority (78.6%) of the farmers were males and married (85.7%). Their average age and household sizes were 44.52 years and 10 members respectively. Z-test analysis was employed to compare the yield of millet before and after FAO intervention and the result was significant at 1% (<0.01) which confirms significant difference in yield of the beneficiaries before and after FAO intervention. One-way Analysis of Variance was used to analyse the difference in yield of FAO beneficiaries IDPs, host families and returnees, and the result reveals that there was no significant difference in their yield because the p-value of (0.109) is greater than that of level of significance (0.05). It was concluded that the yield of the beneficiaries after FAO intervention was higher than the yield of millet before the intervention. The study recommended that should government should improve the security situation in the study area.