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Impact Evaluation of Agricultural Infrastructure on Small Holder Farming Production Indelta State, Nigeria Nigerian Agricultural Policy Research Journal. Volume 1, Issue 1, 2016. http://aprnetworkng.org Impact Evaluation of Agricultural Infrastructure on Small Holder Farming Production inDelta State, Nigeria D. E. Oyoboh Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Services, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria Abstract Crop production in Nigeria is dominated by small holder farmers with less than 5 hectares. They make up about 70 percent of the farming population and produce the bulk of the food crops. However, with their immense contributions to the food needs of the country, they are still bedeviled with enormous challenges of inadequate agricultural infrastructures. This study examined the structure of the government agricultural infrastructure and estimated the impact of these infrastructures on the agricultural production of farmers in Delta State. Data were obtained from cross-sectional survey of farmers via the use of a well structured questionnaire. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The analysis of the result on the structure of infrastructure using test of difference in proportion showed agricultural infrastructure has significantly improved the structure of rural social infrastructure. However, they have not improved the structure of agricultural infrastructure in Delta State on the general basis. The infrastructures so far provided have increased lake and pond (aquaculture) fishing, livestock number, improved health, farming techniques, produce evacuation and marketing. The recommendations made include: need to increase in agricultural infrastructural base especially in rural physical and institutional infrastructure, with engine boats and articulated agricultural extension programmes. These will be necessary for increased agricultural production and the transformation of rural farmers from socio economic stress.. Key Words: Agriculture, Small Holder Farming, Infrastructure, Transformation, Rural, Poverty, Institutional, Social 1. Introduction If agriculture, particularly smallholder market system that offers opportunities in agriculture is to provide one of the principal terms of demand of products with optimum routes out of poverty for the next generation of standards. In addition, it needs to help reduce rural men and women, and create the sectoral the vulnerabilities of poor rural people to risks growth that provides non-farm opportunities for and shocks. Finally, it needs to be able to others, it must be productive, profitable and support the livelihoods of future generations, sustainable. There should also be an efficient one that does not deplete, but rather helps to Nigerian Agricultural Policy Research Journal. Volume 1, Issue 1, 2016. http://aprnetworkng.org protect or restore, the natural resource storage processing, soil conservation and base(International Fund for Agricultural irrigation systems and Rural Institutional Development, 2011). The agrarian sector has Infrastructure (RII) which are institutions a strong rural base, hence concern for established to give support to the agricultural agriculture and rural development become sectors such as research, credit, marketing synonymous, with a common root. and cooperative institutions. The relevance of these infrastructures to agricultural production The concept of agricultural development is cannot be over emphasized. defined as the agrarian, cultural and institutional transformation of the rural areas According to Parson (1966), agricultural leading to the acquisition of the capacity and development, is a transformation process capability, and the willingness to use these, to which involves structural changes of an supply the goods and services needed by the economy from a small holder base to one that entire population in increasing numbers and is industrial-urban oriented. While Dittoh and diversity occurring in such an area (Oyaide, Adegeye (1985) defined agricultural 1996). Different experts of agricultural development as the provision of more and development bothered about rural or agrian better food, improvement in infrastructures transformation have offered various definitions such as good feeder roads for the evacuation on its stimulants (agricultural infrastructures). of farm produce, clean water supply, electricity, Two categories of agricultural infrastructure provision of schools within easy reach of the were identified by Ibana(1995); Capital rural dwellers which translates to higher Extension Infrastructures (CEI) and Capital standard of living. This is a systematic and Intensive Infrastructure (CII). Some of the conscious approach to utilise the agricultural former includes agricultural research, health resources of a nation for the benefit of all facilities, educational services, soil citizenry. The relationship between agricultural conservation, agricultural extension, credit infrastructures and production is so high and institutions, crops and animal protection and almost complimentary that Eboh (2013) the latter includes such items as; electricity, defined agricultural development as an water development facilities, transport services integrated approach to food production with in the form of roads, railways, bridges, jetties, the provision of physical, social and machine and equipment for processing and institutional infrastructures which results in storage. Idachaba et al., (1980) classified improvement in the standard of living of the capital intensive infrastructures into three: rural dwellers. Rural Social Infrastructures (RST) like health The small holder farmer does not keep facilities, education facilities, rural utilities such markets in mind when planning production. as water and electricity supply, Rural Physical Individual farmer is an island in the agricultural Infrastructures; (RPI) like transportation, Nigerian Agricultural Policy Research Journal. Volume 1, Issue 1, 2016. http://aprnetworkng.org inputs and outputs markets or exchange agricultural infrastructure made on system. The opposite of subsistence farming is transforming small holder farmers in the study commercial farming (Alimi, 2012). According to area? Idode (1999), some of the factors that affected The objectives of the study were thus to development of small holder farming in Delta determine the structure of the infrastructure in State included rural labour shortage, poor the agricultural sector of the state among the prices for famers produce and transportation respondents. Secondly, to estimate the impact challenges. of the agricultural infrastructure on the The Delta State government has undertaken agricultural production in the study area. various infrastructures in the agricultural sector Based on the objectives, the null hypothesis like motorable roads, education, health care (H0) that was tested was: Agricultural delivery, provision of pipe-borne water, rural infrastructure has brought no significant impact electrification, processing and storage facilities on the agricultural production in Delta State. credit, input subsidies, extension, capacity Literature Review building and agribusiness (Delta State Government, 2014). However, the level of rural Agricultural transformation is a process based infrastructure provided and the extent to which on significant long-term productivity increase these have helped or improved the agricultural leading to increase in people employed in production and thus rural emancipation of agriculture and releasing labour to be farmers in Delta State are questions of great transformed to other sectors of economy concern. It is clear from the above that much (Timmer, 2009). Transformation looks for an works still needs to be done on the structure of approach that is characterized by greater the infrastructure in the agricultural sector of partnership between federal, state and local the state and the impact of the infrastructure government, economic entities, private on the agricultural production in Delta State. industry and other community groups. The However, the level of infrastructures provided process of agricultural transformation involves to any particular community and the degree to diversification in the agricultural sector to meet which these facilities have positively affected changing domestic and trade demands (Eboh, agricultural production thereby reducing the 2013).Transformation of the Nigerian excruciating food crisis in Delta state is worthy agricultural sector is therefore a necessary of concern. It is on the light of this and instrument if the country is going to achieve recognizing the fact that existing works are increase in domestic agricultural productivity. inconclusive that this study therefore, sought to Agricultural transformation is not only about answer two questions. Firstly, how are the food but also about the economy. The process structures of agricultural infrastructure in Delta of agricultural transformation involves a greater State? Secondly, what impact have the reliance on input and output delivery systems Nigerian Agricultural Policy Research Journal. Volume 1, Issue 1, 2016. http://aprnetworkng.org and increase in integration of agriculture with Nigeria through an agricultural sector that other sectors of the domestic and international drove income growth, accelerated economies (Obayelu and Obayelu, 2012). achievement of food and nutritional security, Agricultural transformation is characterized as generated employment and transformed a process of sustainable modernizing Nigeria into a leading
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