期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：62-71
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：This study examines the impact of National Fadama Development Project II on the provision of advisory services to the farmers (beneficiaries). It assesses the extent to which participation in the program has enhanced the level of adoption and demand for advisory services. The study relied on primary data collected using structured questionnaire and personal interviews. The study uses Propensity score matching (PSM) and double difference (DD) estimator to really net out the impact on the beneficiaries. Statistical test for difference (t-Test) was used to compare the outcomes of the beneficiaries and non beneficiaries. Fadama II has increased demand for postharvest handling, agricultural marketing, livestock management practices, crop management practices, and financial management advisory services and have made significantly greater impact compared with nonbeneficiaries at 5% level of significance but did not have a significant impact on the demand for improved crop varieties and soil fertility management technologies, perhaps because of its emphasis on providing postproduction advisory services. The Fadama II project has had limited impact on provision of production advisory services probably because the public extension service provider (the ADP) has focused on providing production advisory services using mainly a supply-driven approach The project needs to consider supporting soil fertility management to enhance the effectiveness of productive assets and other interventions and to address the potential land degradation that could result from higher agricultural productivity. It is also important for Fadama II to invest in providing advisory services on production technologies, because the ADP has limited funding to effectively provide such services. As it strives to reform its extension systems toward more pluralistic systems, the government needs to harmonize existing approaches and seek to use those that are complementary rather than conflicting
关键词：Pluralistic advisory services; Community driven development; Impact; Fadama II ;beneficiaries
