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Impact Of Survival Farming Intervention Programme On Cassava Production
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Some of the Government agricultural
intervention programmes and policies aimed at increasing agricultural
production especially cassava production include the Farm Settlement
Scheme, National Accelerated Food Production Programme (NAFPP),
Agricultural Development Projects (ADPs), River Basin Development
Authorities (RBDAs), National Seed Service (NSS), National Centre for
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Mechanization (NCAM), Agricultural and Rural
Management Training Institute (ARMTI) and Agricultural Credit Guarantee
Scheme Fund (ACGSF). Others were the Nigerian Agricultural Cooperative
and Rural Development Bank (NACRDB), Agricultural Banks, Operation Feed
the Nation (OFN), Green Revolution (GR), Directorate of Foods, Roads and
Rural Infrastructure (DFFRI), Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Company
(NAIC), National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) and
Specialized Universities for Agriculture.
Agricultural Development
Projects (ADPs) is an integrated approach which came into being as a
result of the failure of special crop programmes to achieve rural
development and food security objectives of government in Nigeria. As
intervention strategies, these programmes have been designed to increase
productivity in cassava sub-sector, as well as enhancing farmers‟
income from agriculture (Yisa, 2009). The NGOs efforts include
Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Project (SARDP), Rural
Poverty Eradication Project (RPEP), Cassava Enterprise Development
Project (CEDP) and others. All these programmes and policies due to one
reason or the other have failed to meet the objective of
self-sufficiency in food production.
A number of new initiatives are
also currently being implemented to increase area of cultivation,
yields, processing and marketing of cassava products in the country.
These include the presidential initiatives on cassava production, the
National Special Programme for Food Security (NSPFS), Root and Tuber
Expansion Programme (RTEP) and Rural Banking Scheme (Ugwu and Kanu,
2012). The Root and Tuber Expansion Programme (RTEP) was formulated
between 1995 and 1997 to consolidate the gains made under the Cassava
Multiplication Project (CMP) of ADP in order to enhance national food
self-sufficiency and improve rural household food security and income of
poor farmers within the southern and middle belt States of the country.
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