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    Essential Factors Associated with Growing of Improved Cassava Varieties as Food Security Crop in Oyo State, Nigeria
    (Journal of Capital Development in Behavioural Sciences, 2016-12) Ajani, O.W; Ajani, O.O
    Essential factors which influenced the growing of the improved cassava varieties as food security crop were appraised in this study. Multistage sampling procedure was employed. Purposive selections of two (2) agricultural zones were carried out within Oyo State. At the second stage, two (2) Local Government Areas within the two zones were randomly selected. 27% of the populations of registered full-time cassava farmers were randomly selected for interview giving a total of 201 cassava farmers. Tobit regression model was the analytical tool employed to isolate the critical factors. The results show that the growing of improved cassava varieties as food security crop among cassava farmers were averagely practiced and done. Eight groups of factors were isolated with 55.60% contribution to growing of improved cassava varieties. However, factors such as location of farmer, educational status of the household head, annual income realized from cassava sold, membership in a farmer based organization; favourable price and type of labour used by household have significant positive effect, while farm size and farming experience of the cassava house hold have significant negative effect as factors associated with growing of improved cassava varieties. The findings from this study suggests that there is urgent need for relevant stakeholders in agriculture and government to consider the factors associated with growing of improved cassava varieties by cassava farmers, if cassava tuber production will continue to leverage and promote our economy and serve as beneficial crop in term of food security and safety. Keywords: Agribusiness, Food Security, Poverty alleviation, Technologies, Varieties.