DOI: 10.36347/sajb.2019.v07i08.005

Pages: 339-344

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of gas flaring on crop yield around the communities in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State. Two hundred (200) questionnaires were distributed across 11 communities and 94.5% were successfully returned and in the cause of the study, a null hypothesis with its alternative was used and tested in respect to climate/crop yield information, using chi-square statistical tool and percentages. The result revealed that gas flaring has great effect on the land through acid rain which destroys the structure and texture of the soil and in turn impacts negatively on the yield of most crops like maize and cassava. The study also reveals that there is significant difference between gas flaring and food productivity which implies change in climate and food production. Another implication of the result is that there is low productivity and decrease in quality productivity. It was observed that the gas flaring activity of the companies in Ikuru Town has contributed negatively in almost all areas of humanly related problems ranging from poor produce of agricultural products, increasing incidence of health illnesses, poverty, hunger and death. It was recommended among others that farmers within the area should be given higher resistant varieties of crops that can withstand the adverse heat increase, so as to increase productivity and profit maximization, fertilizers should be made readily available for farmers if crop cultivation must be increased considerably and health facilities should be increased within the area to help fight against the increasing incidence of health related problems to gas flaring activity.