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    Assessment of farmer-to-farmer cassava innovation dissemination in Osun state, Nigeria
    (Department of Agricultural extension and rural development, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife., 2024) Akande, Bakare Aleem.
    The study identified the various innovations the cassava farmers are disseminating; determined the level of involvement of the respondents in the dissemination of the innovations, examined the respondents’ perception about the innovations been disseminated and examined the communication methods adopted while disseminating the innovations among the respondents in the study area. These were with a view to assessing the farmer-to-farmer cassava innovation dissemination in Osun State, Nigeria. The study was carried out in Osun State. Population for the study were the cassava farmers that registered with Cassava Growers Association of Nigeria, Osun State Chapter. The State is divided into three agricultural zones, namely, Iwo, Ife-Ijesha and Osogbo. Iwo zone has seven Local Government Areas (LGAs); Ife-Ijesha has 10 LGAs; while Osogbo has 13 LGAs. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. At the first stage, based on the preponderance of cassava farmers, there was a purposive selection of one LGA from Iwo zone namely Iwo, two LGAs from Ife-Ijesa zone namely Ife North and Ilesa West and two LGAs from Osogbo zone namely Odo-Otin and Orolu making a total of five LGAs selected. At the second stage, the following rural communities were selected three from Ife north LGAs, three from Ilesha west LGAs, five from Iwo LGAs, three from Odo – Otin LGAs and three from Orolu making LGAs making a total of seventeen rural communities, simple random sampling was used to select 50 percent of the registered cassava farmers across the selected LGAs translating to 100 from Iwo, 48 from Ife-North, 44 from Ilesa West, 18 from Odo-Otin LGAs and 109 from Orolu LGAs. In all, 319 respondents were selected for the study in the last stage. Results showed that: the mean age, household size, years of formal education and annual income were (48±10years , 7±3 members, was12±5 #473,981.19±#201,310.72) respectively Majority identified getting cassava stems from recommended source, use neem extracts as bio control of pest, high yielding varieties, use healthy planting materials and planting cassava at the right density (73.7%, 67.1%, 77.1%, 67.7%) respectively as innovation disseminated. About 71 percent indicated a moderate level of involvement in innovation disseminated. More than half (50.2%) indicated positive level of perception about the innovation being disseminated. Meetings, (x̄ = 2.67), farm visit (x̄ = 2.55), group and discussion (x̄ = 1.51) were the methods of communication that were highly used to disseminate the innovations. Furthermore, results show that there was significant relationship between age (r = -0.464), household size (r = 0.162), estimated annual income (r = 0.23). There was a positive and significant relationship between perception (r = 0.31), methods of communication (r = 0.219) and involvement in innovation dissemination at (p ≤ 0.05). The study concluded that meetings and face-to-face methods of innovation dissemination were effective and the respondents were moderately involved in disseminating the cassava innovation in the study area.