Assessment Of Farmers’ Compliance With Non-usage Of Banned Agrochemicals: Case Study Of Amaranth Farmers In Ekiti State, Nigeria.

 ABSTRACT The study assessed the compliance of Amaranth farmers with non-usage of banned agrochemicals in the selected Local Government Areas of Ekiti State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select one hundred and twenty farmers from the selected Local Government Areas of Ekiti state. The average age of the farmers was 41years with majority (81.7%) as males. They had an average year of schooling as approximately l0years with an average annual income of 212,000 Naira. In addition, majority of the amaranth farmers (99.2%) were aware that some agrochemicals have been banned. Mo…