The study investigated agroforestry farming among some international
organizations, Nigerian Government, Kastina State Government and farmers in
Katsina State. The aim of the study was to provide a baseline information on
agroforestry practices in Kastina State. The practices undertaken by these bodies
include establishment of shelterbelt, windbreak and woodlots, others were
reforestation/plantation establishment, trees on farmland, homegarden and street
planting. These bodies reforested a total of 11,0832 hectares of land through
agroforestry and aforestation practices. The study covered the three agroecological
zones of the state, namely Sahel, Sudan and Guinea savanna zones. Farmers were
selected from twenty seven villages, nine villages from each of the three
agroecological zones, thus giving a sample size of 450 farmers. The data collected
were summarized and presented as ratio/frequencies/percentages/propotions/tables
and subsequently subjected to chi-square test to verify the observations made.
Variables pertaining to the farmers and their farming activities were investigated.
The study has revealed that (i) agroforestry is not widely practiced by farmers in
Katsina State as only 23 percent of the sampled farmers practiced it. (ii) Farmers
who practiced agroforestry were mainly male and largely within 30-39 age cohort.
(iii) agrofrorestry farmers cultivated an area of 609 hectares representing a mean of
6.2 hectares. The predominant agroforestry system practiced was maintaining of
multipurpose trees on crop land, windbreak and multipurpose woodlot.