Comparative Analysis of Beneficiaries and Non Beneficiaries of Local Empowerment and Environmental Management Project in Edati and Katcha Local Government Areas of Niger State, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT
This study was carried out to analyse the activities of Local Empowerment and Environmental Management Project (LEEMP) on Beneficiaries in Edati and Katcha Local Government Areas of Niger State, Nigeria.
Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Respondents were described. Availability of infrastructures were also identified in the study area.
The Agricultural output and standard of the living of the respondents were also determined. Four communities namely Rokota, Sakpe, Ebba and Kparaka were the benefiting communities and Edati, Emindayisah, Kaji and Gboyako were the non-benefiting communities.
In all, eight communities were selected for the study.From each Local Government, two villages which are beneficiaries of LEEMP activities and two other villages, non-beneficiaries were selected for comparison.
Ten percent of the total population from each community was taking as sample size. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage and mean) and multiple linear regression were used for data analysis.
The findings revealed that the beneficiaries of LEEMP activities had more number of the infrastructure in their communities than the non-beneficiaries.
The result also revealed that organized market, irrigation facilities and borehole have positive impact on farmers output while education has negative impact.
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Majority of the world’s population live in rural areas where they are engaged in agriculture, (Taimi, 2003). There are clear indications that the rural sector is lagging behind in social amenities, and the gap between the rural and urban areas is still widening (Obibuaku, 1983).
Nigeria’s rural people are about the most deprived of all Nigerians.They have least access to services such as health and educational facilities. Also, they have limited access to modern agricultural inputs.
In essence, infrastructural and institutional arrangements are deficient at the local levels where most people who need them lives (Voh, 1983).
The common man looks at rurality in terms of presence or absence of amenities in the community.
However, when the community begins to change– expand in size and starts to enjoy amenities such as pipe borne water, electricity, health centres, schools, good road network and banks, then rural transformation is said to have started taking place in the community.
According to Thor et al (2001), rural transformation connotes a rapid improvement in the personality of rural man and his physical environment. Rural development was almost synonymous with agricultural development.
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