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Increasing productivity via continuous use of improved technologies remains a viable strategy to reducing food insecurity and poverty among smallholder farmers. These improved technologies include improved seed varieties, fertilizer, recommended spacing, recommended mixed cropping and pesticides. This study investigated dis-adoption of improved technologies among farmers in cocoa-based farming systems of Southwestern Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used to obtain information from 200 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and probit regression model. Descriptive statistics revealed that 7.5% of the respondents did not adopt any improved technologies. About 51.0%, 35.0%, 36.5%, 69.0%, and 53.5% of the respondents previously adopted improved seed varieties, fertilizer, recommended spacing, recommended mixed cropping, and pesticide respectively. However, about 28.4%, 68.6%, 36.4%, 58.9%, and 29.0% of the respondents discontinued improved seed varieties, fertilizer, pesticide, the recommended spacing, and recommended mixed cropping, respectively. Probit estimates revealed that factors affecting dis-adoption of improved technologies were membership of an association (P |
