Abstract: A socio-economic survey of rural farmers in Biu Plateau Region of Borno State, Nigeria was conducted in 2018 to study the characteristics of the farmers in order to proffer solutions that can improve their productivity. A structured questionnaire containing over 90 questions were designed and administered to a randomly selected 385 farmers determined from Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sampling table proportionately to the population of each of the selected settlements in the five local government areas that made-up of the region. Data were analyzed using relevant descriptive statistics.