_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: Email: Solomonnwafor8@gmail.com; Archives of Current Research International 20(7): 28-37, 2020; Article no.ACRI.62658 ISSN: 2454-7077 Evaluation of Income and Postharvest Losses of Yam in Southern Agricultural Zone of Nasarawa State Daniel Akaakohol Iorzua 1 , Agnes Agbanugo Ikwuba 1 , James Timbee Aan 1 and Solomon Chimela Nwafor 2* 1 Department of Sociology, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria. 2 Department of Research Outreach, National Root Crops Research Institute Umudike, Nigeria. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. Author DAI designed the study, wrote the first draft of the manuscript and literature searches authors AAI and JTA wrote the protocol and supervised the work and also read through the several drafts of the work. Author SCN performed the statistical analysis and managed the analyses of the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/ACRI/2020/v20i730211 Editor(s): (1) M. A. Elbagermi, Misurata University, Libya. Reviewers: (1) Saravana Bavan, Dayananda Sagar University, India. (2) Monier Morad Wahba, National Research Centre, Egypt. (3) Agidew Abebe, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sdiarticle4.com/review-history/62658 Received 24 August 2020 Accepted 29 October 2020 Published 20 November 2020 ABSTRACT The study evaluated the income and postharvest losses of yam in Nasarawa State Nigeria from 2014 to 2018. The study employed the use of cross sectional design. The study was conducted in Nasarawa state, Nigeria between October 2019 and June 2020. Data for the study were collected using multistage sampling technique from a sample of three hundred and eighty seven (387) respondents. The result showed that majority of the respondents (322) 83%, were male, and within the age range of 31-40 years 158(41%) followed by the age bracket of 41-50: 97(25%); 323(84%) of the respondents were married with average household size of 8.0 persons per household while 87% of the respondents have had one form of formal education or the other. The spearman correlation matrix showing the relationship between the income and post-harvest losses of the farmers further revealed that there is a significant relationship between income and postharvest Original Research Article