Impact of Promoted Improved Crop Production Practices in the Sudan Savannah Task Force of Kano-Katsina-Maradi Pilot Learning Sites.
ABSTRACT
In Kano and Katsina States of Nigeria, some promoted improved crop production practices have been tested since 2008 in a series of farmer-managed field trials in four Innovation Platforms (two each in Kano and Katsina States).
The broad objective of this study was to assess the impact of improved crop production practices of Sudan Savannah Task Force (SSTF) among farmers in Katsina State, Nigeria.
The specific objectives of the study were to: determine the rates and intensities of adoption, identify and evaluate the factors that influence the adoption of improved crop production practices of SSTF.
Determine the impact of improved crop production practices of SSTF on the income and technical efficiency of the farming households, identify and evaluate the determinants of escape from poverty among the crop farmers and identify and describe the constraints militating against crops production in the study area.
The study used primary data collected in 2011 cropping season with the aid of questionnaires from 300 farming households spanning four Local Government Areas in Katsina State, Nigeria.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page.. i
Declaration ii
Certification. iii
Dedication…. iv
Acknowledgments… v
Contents…. vi
List of Tables.. x
Abstract… xii
CHAPTER 1
1.0 INTRODUCTION—…. 1
- Background of the Study—— 1
- Problem Statement…… 6
- Objectives of the Study…. 8
- Justification of the study….. 8
- Hypotheses…. 11
CHAPTER 2
- LITERATURE REVIEW…….. 12
- The Farming Systems of Sudan Savannah, Nigeria… 12
- The Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme and Technologies Promoted.. 15
- Adoption of Farming Technology….. 16
- Factors Affecting the Adoption of Promoted Agricultural Technologies..18
- Impact of Agricultural Technologies……… 20
- Review of Analytical Tools for Adoption and Impact Studies.. 25
- Descriptive statistics…… 25
- Adoption rate (adoption index).. 26
- The logistic regression model…. 27
- The double difference estimator and the t-statistic…….. 29
- Review of Previous Studies on Adoption and Impact… 32
- Adoption rate (adoption index)/adoption intensity. 32
- The logistic regression model….. 33
- Impact studies…………. 34
- Knowledge Gap and Link with the Present Study.. 35
- Socio-economic Characteristics of Farming Households………. 36
- Determinants of Escape from Poverty amongst Crop Farmers……… 39
- Constraints to the Implementation of Agricultural Projects……. 40
- Innovations Systems Approach in Agriculture…. 41
CHAPTER 3
- METHODOLOGY….. 44
- The Study Area…………. 44
3.2. Sampling Procedure and Sample Size…. 47
- Data Collection Method………… 48
- Analytical Techniques…… 49
- Descriptive Statistics………. 49
- Adoption Rate…….. 49
- The Logit Model………………… 50
- The Double Difference Estimator…. 51
- Cobb-Douglass Frontier Production Function………. 52
- Probit Regression Analysis……… 53
CHAPTER 4. 55
4.0 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION….. 55
- Socio-economic Characteristics of the Crop Farmers. 55
- Age of Respondents……… 55
- Farm Size…… 56
- Years of Crop Production Experience……… 57
- Educational Level….. 58
- Household Size…….. 59
- Source of Labour….. 60
- Land Tenure System……. 61
- Types of Farm Implements Used…. 61
- Amount of Credit Used………… 62
- Source of Agricultural Credit….. 63
- Marital status….. 64
- Members in the Farmers‟ Cooperative Society….. 65
- Annual Farm Income………… 66
- Access to SSTF Improved Crop Production Practices……………………………………. 67
- Test of Mean Difference between Adopters and Non-adopters………………………. 67
4.2 The Rate of Adoption of SSTF Improved Crop Production Practices………………….. 68
4.3. Factors Affecting Adoption of Recommended SSTF Crop Production Practices….. 71
- Impact of Adoption of SSTF Recommended Crop Production Practices on the Farmers‟ Income….. 73
- Impact of Adoption of SSTF Recommended Crop Production Practices on the Technical Efficiency of Farmers … 75
- Frequency Distribution of Technical Efficiency Scores……… 79
4.6. Determinants of Propensity to Escape from Poverty….. 80
4.7 Constraints Militating against Crops Production in the Study Area……………………… 82
CHAPTER 5
- SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS…. 85
- Summary………. 85
- Conclusion……….. 87
- Recommendations…. 88
- Suggestions for Further Research………. 89
References….. 90
INTRODUCTION
Agriculture constitutes one of the most important sectors of Nigeria‟s economy. The sector is particularly important in terms of generating employment and contributing to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and export revenue earnings (Manyong et al., 2004).
In the 1960s, the agricultural sector was the most important in terms of contributions to domestic production, employment and foreign exchange earnings.
The situation remained almost the same three decades later with the exception that it is no longer the principal foreign exchange earner, a role now being played by oil (National Bureau of Statistics, 2012).
The sector remained stagnant during the oil boom decade of the 1970s, and this accounted largely for the declining share of its contributions.
The trend in the share of agriculture in the GDP shows a substantial variation and long term decline from 60% in the early 1960s through 48.8% in the 1970s and 22.2% in the 1980s (National Bureau of Statistics, 2012).
Unstable and often inappropriate economic policies (of pricing, trade and exchange rate), the relative neglect of the sector and the negative impact of oil boom were also factors responsible for the decline in its contributions (National Bureau of Statistics, 2012).
Generally, the agricultural sector is the single largest sector of the economy, contributing about 41% to the country‟s GDP (Olayemi et al., 2004).
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