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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1.1: Summary of climatic data from selected meteorological stations................................3
Table 1.2. Characteristics of the different landform units in the research area.............................4
Table 2.1. Characteristics of the four sample sites........................................................................8
Table 2.2. Farmers’ priority activities.........................................................................................10
Table 2.3. Farmers’ priority land uses in a farm .........................................................................10
Table 2.4. Farmer’s priority expenditures...................................................................................13
Table 2.5. Cropping calendar in the study area...........................................................................13
Table 2.6. Food crops and trees grown in the TCP area .............................................................14
Table 2.7. Density and yield of maize grown following natural fallow of different ages...........18
Table 2.8. Density and yield of groundnut grown following natural fallow of different ages....18
Table 2.9. Density and yield of cocoyam grown following natural fallow of different ages......18
Table 2.10. Density and yield of cassava grown following natural fallow of different ages ......19
Table 2.11. Yield of Cucumeropsis mannii grown following natural fallow of different ages...19
Table 2.12. Some plant species used by farmers as indicators of fertile soil ..............................22
Table 2.13. Some plant species used by farmers as indicators of infertile soil...........................22
Table 2.14. Most solicited hunted animal species.......................................................................23
Table 2.15. Farmers’ priority activities.......................................................................................23
Table 2.16. Farmers’ priority crops.............................................................................................24
Table 2.17. Priority socio-economic constraints for food crop production in the study area. ....26
Table 2.18. Food crop production constraints in the forest zone ................................................26
Table 2.19. Farmers’ priority agronomic production constraints................................................27
Table 3.1. Soil property changes from fallow to food crop field after burning. .........................31
Table 3.2. Soil property changes under perennial and sole annual crop .....................................42
Table 4.1. Extent of the areas influenced by shifting cultivation in 1984 and 1997 ...................47
Table 4.2. Population variation with landform units in the TCP area.........................................48
Table 4.3. Multiple linear regression equations of various crop yields as functions of physicochemical
soil properties in 0-20 cm soil slice (at p