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

Table27: Frequency of Practicing Sorghum Technologies

Technologies Improved variety

Extent Frequency Percentage Regularly 71 62.3 Often 17 31.2 Sometime 10 6.5 Rarely Never Weighted score 4.4 4.4 Seed dressing with Apron star Regularly 20 25.0 Often 25 31.3 Sometime 14 17.5 Rarely 7 8.7 Never 14 17.5 Weighted score 3.3 3.3 Plant population Regularly 41 51.2 Often 18 22.5 Sometime 19 23.8 Rarely 2 2.5 Never Weighted score 4.2 4.2 Tillage: minimum Tillage Regularly 14 29.0 Often 15 48.4 Sometime 15 3.2 Rarely 11 1.1 Never 25 18.3 Weighted score 2.7 Fertilizer application Regularly 23 30.3 Often 20 26.3 Sometime 23 30.3 Rarely 10 3.0 Never Weighted score 4.03 4.03 Mechanization Regularly 19 37.6 Often 8 38.7 Sometime 11 16.1 Rarely 11 2.2 Never 31 5.4 Weighted score 2.6 2.6 Note: weighted score less than 3.0 indicates that respondents rarely use the technology

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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