This study determined the level of women farmers’ knowledge and adoption of dryland farming techniques in north eastern Nigeria. Questionnaire was subjected to validity and reliability test. Multistage sampling procedure was used to sampled 378 women farmers out of the population of 6758 rural women in dryland areas of north eastern Nigeria. Data collected was analysed using mean and correlation. There is moderate level of knowledge ( 2.57, SD = 0.89) and low level of adoption (  1.78, SD = 0.63) of dryland farming techniques among women farmers in north eastern Nigeria. Also, from the perspectives of women farmers their level of knowledge on dryland farming practices significantly influence adoption of dryland farming techniques (r= 0.524, P = 0.000).