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Impact Of Survival Farming Intervention Programme On Cassava Production
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At
the expiration of the Root and Tuber Expansion Programme time-frame in
2007, the Kogi State Agricultural Development Projects (KADP) formulated
an intervention programme in Okehi LGA termed Survival Farming
Intervention Programme (SFIP) with the aim of enhancing cassava
production, adding value to cassava products through processing and
creating markets for the processed products especially “garri†which are
packaged into various categories for sales, though, other finish
products of cassava such as starch, flour, pellet and chips are also
still under consideration. The programme was in later years expanded to
include other LGAs.
The SFIP was formulated in October, 2007 with the
major objective centered on improving cassava production through the
provision of planting materials and other inputs, processing and
packaging, and marketing along the value-chain approach to improve the
production capacity of the cassava stakeholders and their level of
living. The main thrust of the survival farming intervention programme
is on the development of cassava processing industry that converts fresh
cassava root tubers into primary cassava-based commodities that are
tradable in domestic and international markets. The long-term objective
is to commercialize cassava production in order to improve the income,
food security and living conditions of small-holder households in Kogi
State. So far, huge amount of money and human resources have been
expended on the programme.
However, since the inception of the
programme, no studies have been conducted to assess its impact on the
target population. This constitutes a gap in knowledge that need to be
filled making this study very imperative. Moreover, according to Delta
State Ministry of Agriculture (2004) research findings show that one of
the reasons for failure of past government sponsored agricultural
development programmes was lack of data base for policy formulation,
programme implementation, monitoring and impact evaluation. The study
further states that without adequate evaluation, one cannot be sure
whether the objectives of a programme have been achieved or not. It was
against the backdrop of the aforementioned reasons that this study was
conceived to assess the impact of the Kogi Agricultural Development
Project Survival Farming Intervention Programme in Adavi, Okehi and
Okene Local Government Areas of Kogi State. The study, therefore,
provides answer to the following research questions:
i. What are the socio-economic characteristics of the programme participants and non-participants in the study area?
ii. What is the level of awareness of survival farming intervention programme components?
iii.
What are the factors influencing participation of respondents in
survival farming intervention programme on cassava production in the
study area?
iv. What is the impact of survival farming intervention
programme on cassava production of the participants and non-participants
in the study area?
v. What is the impact of survival farming
intervention programme on income and level of living of the participants
and non-participants in the study area?
vi. What are the constraints to effective implementation of survival farming intervention programme in the study area?
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