Keywords
Intervention
Program
Extension
Delivery System
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Abstract
This paper reviewed the agricultural development interventions programs and their extension approaches. Agricultural intervention program is a plan by a country to support its agricultural development, increase food production and welfare among smallholder farmer in collaboration with concerned stakeholders. The review indicated that there were a number of agricultural development intervention programs in Nigeria with the objective of improving the level of agricultural production and productivity. However, records reveal that some of the programs have achieved little or no progress. The first period of agricultural intervention program dated back to the colonial era in which the agricultural policy of the colonial administration was primarily focused on encouraging only export crops at the detriment of the nation towards agricultural production and productivity and the extension approach was by demonstration approach to farmers. The second period was when several institutions performed agricultural extension services. Among such institutions where the River Basin Development Authorities (RBDA), Green Revolution (GR), Operation Feed the Nation (OFN), Directorate for Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI) and Agricultural Development Programs (ADPs), among others, yet, the sector’s performance was far below expectation. The extension approach was Training and visit (T&V) system of extension which Nigeria operates until early nineties when Unified Agricultural Extension System (UAES) was introduced. This approach required that the frontline extension agents of the ADP take messages to farmers in all the sectors of agriculture. The major stakeholders include the states ADPs, National Agricultural Research System, private sectors and the Research Extension Farmer-Input Linkage System (REFILS). Based on this review, it is recommended that the agricultural extension system should be detached from its dependence on the civil service agencies and regulations.
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