Impact of Mechanized Farming on Agricultural Production: An Implication for Poverty Alleviation in Afijio Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria

To achieve the broad objective, the study identified the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents that were involved in mechanized and non mechanized farming, determined the level of awareness with the extent of use of adopted mechanized farming and the production level of mechanized and non–mechanized farmers. Data were collected from 120 registered respondents; the collected data were subsequently analyzed using frequency count, percentages and mean values as descriptive tools, while inferential statistical tool used was Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Anova which were used to determine the relationship and difference between the variables respectively. The results of the findings revealed that the mean age of the sampled mechanized farmers was 47.57. The result of the findings also revealed that majority of the mechanized and non – mechanized farmers were male. A significant relationship was found between monthly income, cultivated farm size and level of production of the mechanized farmers. Also a significant difference was found between cassava productions of mechanized and non – mechanized farmers. High cost of repair was recorded as the most serious constraint; therefore, the study recommended that government should help in subsidizing the cost of repair for the mechanized farmers so as to further boost cassava production.