Authors : Halla, Dangana Tizhe.; Ijabani Edian; Salisu Musa

Volume/Issue : Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 10 - October

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/IJISRT24OCT1773

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Abstract : Farmhouses are integral component of agricultural practice all across Nigeria. This is owing to the fact that most of these activities are carries out in semi urban or rural areas. The quality of farmhouses and the level of infrastructural provisions available in farm settlements are factors that will enhance or inhibit effective agricultural practice in Greater Yola. This paper seeks to assess the level of infrastructural provision in the study area in order to proffer suggestions that would promote the practice agriculture thereto. Ten farmhouses were randomly selected from the study area, seven of which were found to be Large Plantation Farm Type and three were Small Owners or Latent Farm settlements. Check list was used in generating data about the availability of infrastructural provisions in each of the farmhouses, and the study reveals that most of the farmhouses were not built in line the standards and quality of modern farmhouses, while some large plantation farm type have considerable infrastructural provisions, the small owner or latent farm type do not have them, this is likely affecting agricultural practice negatively. It is therefore recommended among others that efforts should be geared towards improving the quality of farmhouses as well as increasing infrastructural provision in order to encourage agricultural practice in Greater Yola.

Keywords : Farmhouses, Infrastructural Provision, Agricultural Practice

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