COVID-19 Pandemic and Arable Crop Farmers’ Production Activities in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria

The study investigated COVID-19 pandemic and arable crop farmers’ production activities in Odeda local government area of Ogun State, Nigeria. Specifically, it determined perception of other issues relating to COVID-19 pandemic, perceived effects of COVID-19 pandemic on their production and sales of farm produce and coping strategies to Covid-19 pandemic. Survey design was adopted for the study. The study population was the arable crop farmers in Odeda local government area that was made up of people of different ages. Data were collected with the aids of questionnaire which also served as interview guide. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select (120) respondents. Frequency distribution, percentage and mean were used for data analysis. The results indicated that all (100%) the respondents had full knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study showed that all (100%) the respondents were severely affected by the skyrocketing of farm input prices and inadequate supply of relief package as well as the pandemic had highly increased cost of production (93.3%). Majority (87.5%) of the respondents reduced the employment of hired labour in other to cope during lockdown. Majority (80.8%) also reduced the land sizes they would have normally cultivated because of the pandemic.