Findings showed that the mean age of participating farmers under the program were about 47 years for cassava farmers, about 44 years for sorghum and about 44 years for rice farmers. On the issues of gender of the farmers, 75% and 25 % of the cassava farmers respectively were male and female, about 49% and 51% of sorghum farmers nationally across the SCPZs were male and female respectively while about 93% and 8% of rice farmers were male and female respectively. However, on the marital status of the farmers, about 68% of cassava farmers were married as against about 32% that were single which could be an indication that these unmarried farmers are youths. For sorghum, about 86% were married while about 14% were single and whereas for rice about 98% of the farmers were married while the remaining were singles. Moreover, majority about 77% of these farmers were educated.
