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Abstract

The study determined factors influencing the training needs of fadama farmers and drew implications for extension work in Osun State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from 150 fadama farmers through a multi-staged random sampling technique. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics, regression and factor analytical techniques. Six factors were isolated from the twenty-six variables with 66.22% contributions to training needs of fadama farmers. These include socio-economic, informational, credit, resources, culture and training related factors. While training related factors had the lowest contribution (5.01%), socio-economic factor contributed the highest (21.48%) to the training needs among the factors. Also two important variables, level of education (b = 1.701) and formal training attended (b = 1.57) were positively significant at p<0.05 to the training needs of fadama farmers.