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Title:Agricultural development in Nigeria: a case study of the utility of agro-service system
Author:Oyeleye, D.A.
Year:1994
Periodical:The Nigerian Geographical Journal
Volume:1
Pages:165-186
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:agricultural extension
agricultural innovations
Abstract:One of the steps taken by the government of Nigeria in recent years to improve agricultural production has been the establishment of agroservice centres. Set up in the late 1970s, these centres are part of a strategy for developing an integrated and coordinated system for making inputs available to farmers in the correct quantity, at the right time, place and price, on the one hand, while providing backup assistance in the form of credit, technology and market outlets for farm products on the other. The author examines the impact of the agroservice centres on the agricultural economy of selected groups of farmers in southern Nigeria. On the basis of data collected in 1987 from three groups of farmers - those who made regular contact with agroservice centres, those who made no contact, and those who had been exposed to modern methods of farming in farm settlements before the advent of agroservice centres and who were still making regular contacts with the latter - the author investigated the extent to which differential access to farm inputs affects the size of holdings, the technique of farming and cropping pattern, and net revenue. He also examined the extent to which the frequency of visits to agroservice centres was affected by the distance between a farm and the centre. He found that although farmers having access to agroservice centres are relatively more efficient than those with no access, a lot still has to be done to improve the quality of the services rendered by the centres. Bibliogr.
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