Crop Productivity, Yield and Technology Adoption Survey of ATASP-1 Small Holder Farmers in Nigeria

technologies, extent of usage of adopted technologies, perception of processing and fabrication technologies and constraints limiting adoption of GAPs. The ratings of perception were: Agree =3, Not sure =2 and Disagree =1. Objective IV was realized through the use of before and after analysis while objectives V was achieved through the use of Logit model. 3.6

Model Specification Logit model was used to ascertain the factors influencing the adoption of good agronomic practices (GAP) among ATASP-1 farmers. The model is specified as follows

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Crop Productivity, Yield and Technology Adoption Survey of ATASP-1 Small Holder Farmers in Nigeria

Published on Jul 17, 2020

Akinwale P. AKINTUNDE

The Government of Nigeria initiated the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) program in 2012, deliberately to meaningfully reduce food imports by increasing the production of five key crops: rice, cassava, sorghum, cocoa and cotton. Over the years, the efforts made by the government toward the achievement of the project objectives has shown positive results due to the increased engagements from the project. This level of positive outcome requires continuous and sustained interventions that will spur increase in the production of the three key staple crops rice, sorghum and cassava became necessary. Also, the sustenance of ATASP-1 Program serves as the continued commitment by the Government with a focused effort on interventions that promotes reform in areas that had been identified and the appropriate move towards addressing prior gaps. This study affirms that yield data collected for the crops indicated that, across the zones, average yield for rice was 6.12mt/ha; sorghum:1.68mt/ha & cassava:34mt/ha

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Crop Productivity, Yield and Technology Adoption Survey of ATASP-1 Small Holder Farmers in Nigeria

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Cassava Farmers

Table 41: Adoption of Good Agronomic Practiced Technology on Cassava ATASP-1

Annexure 5: Fabricators FGD questionnaire

Table 42: Adoption of Good Agronomic Practiced Technology on Sorghum ATASP-1

Figure 21: Technologies practiced on sorghum

Table 35: Mean Processed Output Quantity Before and After ATASP-1 by Zone

Figure 16: Mean crop production for non-adopters and adopters

Table 28: Frequency of Practicing Rice Technologies

Table 27: Frequency of Practicing Sorghum Technologies

Table 30: Rate of Adoption of Cassava Technologies

Table 33: Effects of Adoption of GAP on Corp Production

Figure 11: frequency of practicing technologies on sorghum

Figure 9: Technologies disseminated on rice practiced

Table 9: Lead Farmers Average Years of Cropping Experience by Zone

Figure 7: Technologies disseminated on cassava practiced

Rationale

2.6.2 AfricaRice

1.9 Objectives of the Study

2.6.3 ICRISAT

3.6 Model Specification

2.1.2 Technologies disseminated to rice farmers are