The COVID-19 pandemic effects in Nigeria are compounded by social unrests over palliative distribution and the END-SARS national protests that ensued. Thus, the study investigated the crisis's effects, the coping strategies, the level of resilience, and the constraining factors among fruit-vegetable producers in Nigeria. The study included 86 respondents from the Exotic Fruit-vegetable Growers Association in Osun State. The results showed that most fruitvegetable farmers were males (87.2%) and people within active age ranges (43.44±9.53 years). The crisis mostly affected marketing (94.19%), product transportation (89.53%), and seed access (80%). Farmers used family labor in place of hired labor (54.81%) and used local varieties of seeds (48.84%) as coping strategies. Only 38% of farmers were adjudged resilient to the crisis and the vulnerability predisposing factors are weak inputs access (2.14), value addition incapacity (1.97), poor marketing power (1.21) and weak enterprise linkages (1.17). Probit analysis results show that enterprise characteristics, namely fruit-vegetable types grown (0.54), farm sizes (0.52), and cultivation years (- 0.16), affect production resilience. In conclusion, the production capacity characteristics influences fruit vegetable enterprise resilience to shocks orchestrated by social disruptions. Support services should be provided for farmers to leverage available technological alternatives for improved enterprise resilience.
agricultural enterprise; coping strategies; resilient farming; production capacity; social crisis; vulnerability
Olanrewaju, KO., Akintunde, OK., Fadodun, AR., Kehinde, AL., Ismail, FI. (2026): Social Disruptions Effects and Fruit-vegetable Production Resilience in Osun State, Nigeria. Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica, 57, 1, DOI: 10.7160/sab.2026.570104