Analysis of Youths Involvement in Arable Crop Production in Niger State, Nigeria

The State is bordered by Zamfara and Kebbi States in the North and North-west respectively, Kogi and Kwara States in the South and South-west respectively; while Kaduna State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, border the state to the Northeast and Southeast respectively. [...] Level of youth’s involvement in crop production Distribution of respondents according level of involvement in crop production is presented in Table 2. [...] This implies that the variables specified in the model are relevant in explaining the participation decision of the respondents. [...] Also, the Log-likelihood statistic ratio (LR) of 98.06 was significant, meaning that the independent variables included in the model jointly explained the probability of the factors influencing youths’ involvement in agriculture. [...] The marginal effect results revealed that a marginal increase in youth awareness, income from farming and membership of cooperative will lead to increase in probability of youths involving more in agriculture by 0.3055, 0.00004 and 0.1760 resulting in increase in the level of involvement of youths in the study area respectively.