Strategies for Agricultural Extension Financing in Nigeria
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Strategies for Agricultural Extension Financing in NigeriaAbstract
Despite Nigeria's Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), the agricultural sector has not been significantly commercialized, privatized or deregulated. The State is still the dominant actor in the sector. The dwindling financial resources of the Stale calls for review of the situation. In the extension sub -sector, the situation is critical given (le withdrawal of funds fiorii the ADPs by the World Bank. In the light of the foregoing, this paper suggests strategies for alternative financing of agricultural extension in Nigeria. It posits that the private sector can fund the dissemination of technical information on new technologies or practices while the government can fund the generation of improvements in crops, livestock and techniques through its agencies such as the universities and research institutes. In this way the burden of financing the extension service will be shared between the government and the private sector.References
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Feder, Just and Zilberman (1985). Adoption of agricultural innovations in developing countries: A Survey,, Economic Development and Cultural Change. Vol. 33. No. 2. Pp 255 - 298.
Feder, G. And Slade, R. (1993), Institutional reform in India: The case of agricultural extension In: K. Hoff, A. Braverman and J. E. Stiglitz (eds.) The Economics of Rural Organization: Oxford University Pres, Oxfor, 530 - 542.
Judd, Boye and Evenson, (1986), Investing in agricultural supply: The determinants of agricultural research and extension investment, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 35, 77 -113.
Ruttan, V. VV. (1982), Agricultural Research Policy, University of Minneapolis Press, Minneapolis.
Tllirtlo, C. C. and V VV. Rattan (1987), The Role of Demand arid Supply in the Generation and Diffusion of technical Change, Harwood Academic, Clint, Switzerland.
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U. Onyebinama, U. A. (2015). Strategies for Agricultural Extension Financing in Nigeria. Journal of Agricultural Extension, 1. Retrieved from https://journal.aesonnigeria.org/index.php/jae/article/view/314
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