Abstract

The study investigate crop farmers? perception of Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES) in curbing corruption in inorganic fertiliser delivery in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State Nigeria. Two-stage sampling technique was used to select the 117 GES crop farmers and data was obtained with the aid of structured interview schedule. Data was analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, means and t-test analysis. Findings of the study revealed that mean age of the respondents was 51.9 years and the mean years of farming experience was 29.2 years. The study also discovered that 62.4% of the respondents claimed to be facing serious problem on cumbersome procedure in accessing fertiliser. The study also revealed that respondents developed negative perception towards the following statements: ?A token needs to be paid for easy registration of GES?; ?None registered farmers can also manoeuvre their way to get fertiliser?; ?At fertiliser redemption centre, it is whom you know to get fertiliser?; ?Bad GSM network connectivity does not impaired redemption of fertiliser? and ?the price of GES fertiliser was not the same in the same locality?. Furthermore, no significant differences existed (t= 0.948, p= 0.976) in the perceptional status index of male and female respondents of GES in curbing corruption in inorganic fertiliser delivery. The study concluded that respondents perceived GES as being effective in curbing corruption in fertiliser delivery and therefore recommends that efforts should be made to ensure timely delivery of inorganic fertiliser by the GES stakeholders and sensitize people more about the scheme

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