IMPACT OF KOGI STATE SURVIVAL FARMING INTERVENTION PROGRAMME ON CASSAVA PRODUCTION IN THREE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA
IMPACT OF KOGI STATE SURVIVAL FARMING INTERVENTION PROGRAMME ON CASSAVA PRODUCTION IN THREE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA
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2015-08
Authors
MUHAMMED, Yakubu
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This study was on Impact of Kogi Agricultural Development Project Survival Farming
Intervention Programme on Cassava Production in Adavi, Okehi and Okene Local
Government Areas of Kogi State and it also determine the factors that influence
participation in SFIP. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select respondents
for the study. A total of one hundred and eighty (180) respondents comprising of ninety
(90) participants and ninety (90) non-participants were interviewed with the aid of
structured questionnaire which was also administered on ten (10) officials of SFIP to
obtained vital information. Analytical tools used were both descriptive (frequency
distribution tables, percentages and mean) and inferential statistics (logit regression and
chow-test statistical tool). Attitudinal measuring scale such as likert-scale was also used.
The results of the analysis obtained shows that majority of the respondents, 66% of the
participants, 65% of the non-participants and 70% of the officials were within the age
range of 36 - 55 years. Almost all the respondents are married with just few divorced
and widowed. More also, about 12.2% of the participants and 47.8% of the nonparticipants
had no formal education, while 76.6%, 52.2% and 60% of the participants,
non-participants and the officials, respectively attended primary and secondary schools
with only 7.8% of the participants and 40% of the officials who attended tertiary
institutions. Based on the empirical evidence emanating from this study, planting
material, access to credit, extension contact and training components of SFIP ranked 1st
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nd and 3rd respectively, among the highly aware and most used by the participants.
Logit regression analysis showed R2 of 0.67969 meaning that about 68% of the variation
in the participation of SFIP are been explained by the independent variables in the
model. Age (X1), Marital status (X2), Labour (X4), Education (X5), Household (X7),
Awareness (X10), Extension contact (X12), Cooperative (X13) and Planting material (X14)
had positive coefficients and direct relationship with participation in SFIP implying that
one unit increase in their variable coefficient will result to an increase in level of
participation. Chow test F-calculated for output, yield, income and level of living were
16.31, 16.65, 21.06 and 28.01 respectively, while that of F-tabulated value for 9 degree
of freedom with sample size of 180 was 1.83 at 5% level of probability, hence there was
significant impact of SFIP on cassava production output, yield, income and level of
living of the participants in the study area. All the null hypotheses were rejected while
the alternative hypotheses were accepted. Major constraints identified by the
participants were poor road network (67.8%) and poor market for products (40.0%)
while majority (90.0%) of the officials attested to poor extension to farmers‟ ratio as a
major constraint to effective implementation of SFIP in the study area. In overall, there
was significant impact of SFIP on cassava production in the study area, hence it is
recommended that the programme scaled-up and replicated in other LGAs and States in
the country including FCT, Abuja.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF
THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
DEGREE IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND RURAL SOCIOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND RURAL SOCIOLOGY
FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA, KADUNA STATE
NIGERIA
Keywords
IMPACT, FARMING, INTERVENTION, PROGRAMME, CASSAVA, PRODUCTION, KOGI, NIGERIA