The objective of the study was conducted to analyze labour productivity and
constraints of small holder rubber farmers in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. Primary data
were collected from 300 rubber farmer using purposive and random sampling techniques. Data
collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Likert scale and labour productivity model.
Result of the analysis revealed that wage tapping and share arrangement accounted for 43.33
percent and 36.33 percent respectively. Labour productivity analysis revealed a yield of
826,434.31 kg dry rubber per year and gross income of N81, 949,226.18 per year while the
output per man day was 22.58 kg. Wage / man day was N377.78, while an average plantation
owner reaps N1, 860.56 after adjustments were made to wages and other costs of operation. The
major constraints of rubber farmers included shortage and high cost of labour ranked the first
major problem, inadequate credit as the second most important and significant constraint of
rubber farmers while poor rubber prices and storage facilities problem were the third and the
fourth most important significant problems faced by respondents. The study however
recommended that rubber farmers should form cooperative societies and associations to enable
them access production credit from commercial and Nigerian Agricultural Cooperative and
Rural Development Bank (NACRDB) for rubber production.