FARM MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES IN FARM PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT IN THE NORTHWEST REGION OF CAMEROON
FARM MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGIES IN FARM PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT IN THE NORTHWEST REGION OF CAMEROON

Summary/Abstract: Population growth has induced a reaction by farmers to circumvent the undesirable inability to provision for its needs. Farm management technique innovation and diversification are enlisted as major strategies employed by farmers in the North West Region (NWR) of Cameroon to raise farm productivity. This work sets out to identify and examine the various innovative techniques evolved and/or adopted in farm management within the fields of economic and population geography. The quest for data to achieve the set objectives bears on the precept that rapid population growth accounts for the diversification of the agricultural system of the region. Data to respond to the preoccupations raised lies within the famer households and agricultural promotion agents of the region. The data was collected using the cross-sectional approach using a sample survey of farmer households. The data collection instrument was a structured questionnaire administered to sample households and interview guides for resource persons. Participant observations were equally used to capture field data onsite. Data tabulated respecting set or generated modalities and expressed in terms of absolute values and percentages for analyses. The resulting analyses highlighted a variety of farm management techniques used as strategies by the farmer to augment farm productivity. While a melange of new and old techniques is used in a diversified mix in the region, the mid altitude areas concentrate a greater variety of techniques than the low and high altitudes, and the forested areas predominate in the use of natural sources of farm manuring techniques than the grassland areas. Tilling, planting, soil fertility and farm water management techniques have evolved tremendously and while reliance on some old techniques is reducing, the new techniques have not completely overshadowed the old, demonstrating the diversified mix of the farm management technique situation of the NWR of Cameroon.

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