The Upsurge of Farm Mechanization and Its Impact on Land Occupancy System in Nigeria

Abstract

The reinvigorated approach by stakeholders towards Farm Mechanization has given birth to emerging fears in the existing relationship between mechanized agriculture and traditional land occupancy systems in Nigeria. The increased importation of agricultural machines into the country gave room for cropland growth that butt in farm lands acquired by rural farmers through customary ways. This paper examines these fears in four segments. The first segment searches the unstable land occupancy systems in Nigeria that have showed an elegant equilibrium relationship between constitutions and traditional acts. The second observes the acceptance of Agricultural mechanization and the expanding relevance of tractors. The third scrutinizes the different fears, aggravated by population increase, which come in being as mechanization overshoots on traditionally secured lands. These fears result in to the abuse of labour, continuous land seizures, and the imposing of rural farmers into a blank in which few market options live. To assist relief these fears, the final segment recommends the moderating of large Agricultural machines growth and the systematic improvement of land occupancy systems in preparation for more privatization. By marrying land occupancy systems and Farm mechanization, the environments will survive for more judicious evolution in Nigeria.

The effect of mechanization on labour employment and cropland expansion in northern Nigeria

“…Largely saying, fear arises when the expansion of mechanized Agriculture begins to invade on the land rights of rural farmers that do not have access to mechanization. This research goes to show that, despite the fact that land is still seen as a bumper source of production in Nigeria, mechanization will start having challenges similar to a fast-developing nation, that is the quest the demand for expansion of land area will give way for marginalization of lands by farmers (Shani, 2020).…”