Students’ Perception of West African Agricultural Productivity Programme Adopted Schools Programme in Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract        This study examined students’ perception of the effectiveness of adopted school programme in Oyo state. Primary data were collected using structured questionnaires from 90 respondents using multi-stage procedure. Data were subjected to both descriptive and inferential statistics at p=0.05. The results show that 72.2% of the respondents were between 15-16 years, 51.1% were in SS2 and mostly females (58.1%). Also, 48.9% owned farm at home and 61.1% were from farming background. The students were exposed to maize (77.8%), cassava (77.8%), poultry (66.7%), fishery (44.4%) and rabbitry (44.4%). Major constraints were lack of interest (=2.00), inadequate equipment in agricultural laboratory (=1.93) and lack of home garden (=1.82). More than half (55.6%) of them were favourably disposed to the programme while respondents’ farming background (r=3.740, p ≤ 0.05) was significantly related to their perception of the programme. Recommendation is that WAAPP officials should focus more attention on educating these students in areas that are more technologically inclined. Keywords: West African Agricultural Productivity Programme, Adopted schools project, students’ farmers