Influence of Small Arms Proliferation Control on Agricultural Productivity in Zamfara State-Nigeria

Abstract

The debate on agricultural growth have become a serious issue due to banditry, kidnapping, arm robbery and farmer and herdsmen crises going on in Zamfara State-Nigeria. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the influence of small arms control on agricultural productivity in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Hence, this study adopted the quantitative design through primary survey via questionnaire. However, the population of this study is 179,065. The study sample size of the study is 384 using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sample size table. Therefore, the study administered 384 copies of the questionnaire to respondents and only 367 were duly returned while 17 were not return. Hence, the used 367 to analysis the data. The descriptive, correlation and Analysis of Variance were used to analyses the returned data through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (SPSS) 26.0. Thus, the finding shows that there is a significantly influence of innovation technologies on agricultural productivity in Zamfara State, Nigeria. And the second analysis reveals that there is significant influence of crisis management on agricultural productivity in Zamfara State, Nigeria. The study recommended that innovation technologies and crisis management should be given all necessary resources required for implementation.