Abstract

This study evaluated the perception and attitude of the farmers in communities neighbouring Old Oyo National Park (OONP) on their current agricultural practicing and toward adoption of the wildlife friendly agro-ecological farming using a multi-stage random sample technique. Data on demographic characteristics, perceptions levels and descriptive statistics on Farmer’s Agricultural Practices and Farming System was randomly collected from 100 respondents within 3km2 neighboring OONP, via a well-structured questionnaire and subjected into descriptive and cross-tab analysis using SPSS. Results showed that the mean perception scores of the respondents on their current agricultural practices is 2.89±0.75 while their mean perception towards agro-ecological farming is 3.2±0.52. However, 51.00% of the respondents have a satisfactory perception on their current agricultural practices, while 53.00% respondents have a satisfactory perception on adoption of the agro-ecological farming. Conclusively, the main driver of the respondents’ Perceptions was age, household size and educational level. Furthermore, the result from this study could be a baseline information on which future research could be built.