The study analysed the socio economic factors influencing adoption of improved gum
Arabic seedlings among farmers in the sahelian zone of Borno State, Nigeria. The data
for the study were mainly generated from farming households through the use of
structured and pre-tested interview schedules. Multi-stage, purposive and random
sampling techniques were employed to select 321 representative farming households that
were used for this study. Both descriptive (frequencies, means and percentages) and
inferential (logit regression) statistics were used to analyse the data collected for this
study. The result showed that most (49.20%) of the respondents had farmer cooperatives
as their source of gum Arabic seedlings in the study area. This is closely followed by
fellow farmers representing 40.18% of the respondents in the study area. The logit
regression analysis indicated that the socio-economic characteristics which had
significant influence (P=0.10) on the adoption of improved gum Arabic seedlings by
farmers include; marital status and household size. The study recommends that
awareness creation should be mounted through extension education approach to
enlighten the public on the skills, knowledge, techniques and benefits of the adoption of
improved gum Arabic seedlings in the study area. Farmers in the study area should also
be encouraged to form gum Arabic agroforestry cooperatives in order to enable them to
take advantage of government and non-governmental programmes, such as provision of
credit facilities and technologies etc.