International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) |Volume VI, Issue X, October 2022|ISSN 2454-6186
Idris Sa’idu, PhD, Mr. Abdullatif Murtala and Mrs. Asmau Idris
Department of Public Administration, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto-Nigeria, Nigeria
Abstract: This study is on the effects FADAMA III programme on productive assets acquisition on the beneficiaries. To achieve this, the study seeks to determine whether productive assets acquisition component of FADAMA III has significant and positive effects among the beneficiaries, and o find out whether significant difference exists in the level of productive assets acquisition. The study had a sample of 245 beneficiaries drawn from 12 Fadama Community Associations (FCAs) and 30 Fadama User Groups (FUG) units from Kaduna and Sokoto States, Nigeria. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used to test the formulated hypothesis at 0.05 levels of significance and independent sample t-test was used to establish the differences in the level of productive assets acquisition. Results indicate that productive assets acquisition has strong and positive effects on the beneficiaries (r= 0.701, p= 0.000). The study recommends that the Nigerian Governments and donor agencies, the World Bank and African Development Bank should to initiate multi-pronged livelihood enhancing strategies that could stimulate productive assets acquisition by Smallholder farmers who produce the bulk of food stuffs in agrarian societies like Nigeria.
Keywords: Acquisition, productive assets, low productivity agriculture, capability approach
I. INTRODUCTION
The issue of low productivity in agriculture especially in the developing countries has attracted the interests of national governments, international donor agencies, independent evaluators, and other research efforts to investigate factors responsible for the continual challenges being faced by Smallholder farmers.
Since the attainment of Nigeria’s independence in 1960, government efforts on food security intensification and maintenance came under different agricultural revitalization and rural development strategies with enormous human, institutional and material resources but have failed to resolve issues of low agricultural productivity and food security, over decades (Idris, 2018). In the main, Nigeria’s agricultural productivity is generally considered as low, mostly due to poor access to production-enhancing inputs, low input-output technologies, considerable post-harvest losses of farm produce (an estimated 20% of grains and over 40% fruits/vegetables are lost due to poor post-harvest handling, inadequate agro-processing development, as well as poor rural infrastructure, particularly rural road and limited access to capital) (Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN), 2012).