ISSN 2664-4010 (Print) & ISSN 2664-6730 (Online) South Asian Research Journal of Agriculture and Fisheries Abbreviated Key Title: South Asian Res J Agri Fish | Volume-2 | Issue-2| Mar-April -2020 | DOI: 10.36346/sarjaf.2020.v02i02.003 Copyright @ 2020: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non commercial use (NonCommercial, or CC-BY-NC) provided the original author and source are credited. © South Asian Research Publication, Bangladesh Journal Homepage: www.sarpublication.com/sarjaf 31 Original Research Article Evaluation of Farmer’s Perception on Deforestation and Its Impact on Agricultural Production, Gaya Local Government Area, Kano State, Nigeria Dantani A 1* , Mukhtar RB 1 , Sani, MA 2 , Gupa MA 3 , Abubakar B 4 1 Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Bayero University, P.M.B. 3011, Kano, Nigeria 2 Department of Agronomy, Bayero University, P.M.B. 3011, Kano, Nigeria 3 Department of Forestry and Wildlife, University of Maiduguri, P.M.B. 1069, Borno State, Nigeria 4 Department of Forestry and Environment, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, P.M.B. 2346, Sokoto, Nigeria *Corresponding Author Mr. Abdulmalik Dantani Article History Received: 01.03.2020 Accepted: 09.03.2020 Published: 07.04.2020 Abstract: This study was conducted in order to assess the perception of Farmers on Deforestation and its impact on agricultural production in Gaya Local Government Area of Kano State. Stratified random sampling was adopted for this study where the study area was partitioned in to 11 wards, three districts were selected at random through balloting, and proportional sampling was used in selecting villages from the selected wards. One hundred and twenty (120) questionnaires were administered to farmers. Data collection was through interview with the farmers. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used in analyzing the data. Charts, frequency distribution and percentages were used in presenting demographic information while chi-square test of association was used to test the association between socio- economic characteristics with ideas and causes of deforestation. The result of demography showed that, majority of the respondents fall between 48-58 years, about 91% are male and 9% are female, 94% are farmers and 92% are married. Chi-square result revealed that there was no (P>0.05) significant association between socio-economic characteristics and the ideas on deforestation, on the other hand the test revealed (P<0.05) significant relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and the causes of deforestation with the exception of sex. Keywords: Perception, Deforestation, Farmers, Sampling and Chi-square. INRODUCTION Forest area on the entire planet covers approximately 4 billion hectares. Within this, five countries (Russia, Brazil, Canada, the USA and China) have the largest area accounting for more than 50% of the entire world forest ecosystem. Forests ecosystem and woodlands covers about 675 million ha, that is 23% of Africa’s land area and this constitute about 17% of global forest area [1]. The five countries with the largest forest area in Africa include Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Angola, Zambia and Mozambique; together they have 55% of the forest area on the continent [2]. Total ´planted forests in the entire world reported to be about 264 million ha. According to [2], the area of ´planted forest´ in the global South increased more than 50% between 1990 and 2010, from 95 million to 153 million ha [3]. Reported that, the total plantation area in Africa in the year 2010 was 8 036 000 ha comprising 3 392 000 ha industrial plantations, 3 273 000 ha non-industrial plantations and 1 371 000 ha unspecified plantations, which was around 4.3% of the global plantation area. Nigeria as a country is endowed with large expanse of forested land; these include the swamp forests in the extreme Southern part of the country, the tropical rainforest in the South- west and the wooded savannah in the middle belt and the northern part of the country. Nigeria ranks among the countries of the world with abundant forest resources. [4] reported that, forests in Nigeria occupied about 110, 890km 2 of the country total land mass of about 910,770km 2 , this constitute about 12.18% of the total vegetation cover of the country. According to [5] about 60 percent of all known