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DETERMINANTS OF PASTORALISTS’ SATISFACTION WITH GRAZING RESERVES IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA.
The rising incidences of conflict between the cattle herdsmen and crop farmers throughout Nigeria has become ages crises and this has led the federal government of Nigeria to designate some areas in some states as grazing reserves with the aim of solving crisis between pastoralists and crop farmers. This study examined the determinants of pastoralists’ satisfaction with grazing reserves in Kwara State of Nigeria. Data was collected with the aid of structured questionnaire that was administered on one hundred and twenty pastoralists (120) randomly choose from two purposively selected grazing reserves that are functioning in Kwara State. Descriptive and inferential statistics were both employed to analyze the data collected.The result shows that the mean age of the pastoralists is 43.68 years. All the respondents were male, majority (95%) were married and majority (96.7%) of the pastoralists had no formal education, the mean household size was nine, mean cattle owned of 106. 20. The regression analysis showed that significant relationship existed between the selected socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents and their level of satisfaction with grazing reserves at 5% level of significance. The significant variables include educational level (t=1.597; P=0.113), household size (t=1.004; P=0.317), number of cattle owned (t=0.955; P=0.342) and number of cattle sold (t=-1.501; P=0.136) were positively related to the satisfaction of the pastoralists with grazing reserves. However, age (t=0.565; P=0.573), marital status (t=0.659; P=0.512) and year of pastoral farming (t=-0.273; P=0.785) were not significantly related. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the Federal Government of Nigeria should rehabilitate grazing reserve dam, provide Security for lives and properties of pastoralist, educate pastoralist to Plant improved pastures, Prevention of crop farmers from encroaching the grazing reserves in order to enhance satisfaction of the pastoralists in the g
