Apart from the apparent losses and harm suffered, farmer-herdsmen crisis is brewing militaristic disposition with ample potential to perpetrate violence in the study area. Higher education is protective against holding stronger militaristic attitudes. Militaristic attitude is notably strong and therefore potentially stimulating violence initiation in the study area.
Personal experiences in the herders-farmers crisis showcases frightfulness of the social environment of the study area. Sex and age had no significant effect on militaristic attitude (p > 0.05) but education did (p 0.05). In addition, 99.6%, 97.7% and 98.5% suffered damages/losses on account of cow's consumption of farm produce, uprooting and stepping on planted crops, respectively. Respectively 9.4%, 15.4%, 19.5%, 7.5% and 14.7% of respondents were battered, threatened to be killed, maimed, either raped or their family member was raped and bereaved of a family member. Data were analyzed using One-way ANOVA and independent samples t test. Using farmer-based survey design, structured questionnaire was administered via structured interview among 266 randomly selected respondents. This study was therefore designed to examine farmer's personal experiences of herders-farmers crisis and its effects on their militaristic attitudes in Ibarapa-North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria.
Farmer's experiences of the farmers-herders crisis are considerably consequential for the development of militaristic attitudes a stimulant for violence perpetration.