Economic Wellbeing of Farming Households before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria

The COVID-19 pandemic breakout affected every population and the agricultural sector in Nigeria was not spared from pandemic. This due to restrictions on mobility, interaction of people reduced purchasing power people. demand supply produce internally externally were measures adopted contain spread virus. Farmers finding it difficult obtain farm inputs like seedlings, fertilizers, herbicides etc. caused abundance availability these products, making for farmers make profit. paper examined economic wellbeing 400 smallholder before during using descriptive statistics regression. result research indicated that had a positive relationship with monthly expenditure, food utility number visits, cost fertilizer, consumption per day, quantity harvested, land cultivated days spent farm. Monthly health family allowances transportation negatively related In general, there significant difference between farming household covid-19 Nigeria.