The paper intends to examine the logic of
agricultural practices on upper slopes of the Bamboutos
Mountainswhich cut across the South West, West and
North West regions of Cameroon. The zone is located
between latitude, 5o
32’ and 5o
51’N, longitude, 9o
56 and
10o
09’ E and it extends from an altitude of 2000m to
2700m. After developing a conceptual framework that
reviews the key concepts and theories of agricultural
practices. Both primary and secondary data were
collected from the eight localities which constitute the
area under study to collect data effectively from 162
respondents. Analysis was done with the help of SPSS,`1
Excels 2016 and the result is presented in tables, charts
and graphs. Correlation and regression techniques are
used. The results of the study revealed that Agricultural
practices is the likelihood of the Bamboutos mountains
dwellers. Majority of the respondents are male, age
between 30-40 years, and holder of just FSLC.Farmers
experience has positive and significant correlation with
method of conserving farm products, types of farm tools
used and applicability of chemicals but a weak rank
correlation between crop rotation and level of education.
Equally, crop rotation and mixed farming is significantly
and positively influenced by education attainment of
farmers. Five distinctive steps were identified for
successful farming in the area like elsewhere. For the
third objective of the article, a good number of problems
plaguing the agricultural practice on the Bamboutos
mountain were identified ranging from frequent farmergrazer conflict, insecurity, to more general problem as
resistance of farmers to adapt to new techniques,
expensive nature of farm input, poor farms to market
roads, acute short of funds and personnels. Improving
farms infrastructures, training and recruiting more
personnels, reestablishing agricultural banks, and
breaking land tenure obstacle among other strategies
can go a long way to stimulate agricultural practice in
the mountain area.
Keywords : Agricultural Practices, Evolution and Challenges, Bamboutos Mountains.