Factors Affecting Performance of Agricultural Extension: Evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo

Ragasa, Catherine; Ulimwengu, John M.; Randriamamonjy, Josée; Badibanga, Thaddee Mutumba

doi:10.1080/1389224x.2015.1026363

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“…Agricultural advisory services are provided by different actors including NGOs, development actors, communitybased organizations. The public extension services in both countries are managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and in DRC this ministry relies on funding from the government, at national level, which often is too low (Ragasa, Ulimwengu, Randriamamonjy, & Badibanga, 2016). This results in extension officers failing to deliver their services to smallholder farms.…”

Section: Farmers' Knowledge Of Legumes In Kenya and Drcmentioning

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Farmer perceptions of legumes and their functions in smallholder farming systems in east Africa

Muoni

Barnes

Öborn

et al. 2019

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Legumes play an important role in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) farming systems through the provision of food, feed, fuel, income and a range of biophysical benefits, such as soil fertility enhancement and erosion control. However, their full potential is not being realized. The purpose of this study was to assess farmers' perceptions and knowledge towards legumes and the rationale of farmers for current legume production practices using a survey of 268 farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya. Most of the farmers had some knowledge of legumes and their characteristics. However, they had little knowledge of some key functions, including soil erosion control and soil fertility improvement. Most farmers relied on radio and other farmers for legume-related information. Farmers with relatively large livestock holdings ranked provision of livestock feed as an important legume function. We conclude that farmers put more value on short-term benefits of legumes including food and income than long-term benefits such as natural resource management and thus grain legumes are more readily identified by farmers than forage species. Also, we conclude that farmers require more than just information about legumes to increase uptake, they also require improved market access to procure inputs and sell products to realize other benefits that are associated with growing legumes.

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Section: Farmers' Knowledge Of Legumes In Kenya and Drcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Farmer perceptions of legumes and their functions in smallholder farming systems in east Africa

Muoni

Barnes

Öborn

et al. 2019

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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“…Likewise, they neither felt it necessary to adopt, nor did they trust the effectiveness of these facilities. Furthermore, 25% of them believed that adopting these facilities would waste their money and 42.05% reported that they were not aware of these facilities, which can be considered as the reason behind the failure of the extension services' ability at reaching out to a mass audience [136].…”

Section: The Sentiment Of the Farmers Related To Adoption And Non-adomentioning

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Investigating Key Factors Influencing Farming Decisions Based on Soil Testing and Fertilizer Recommendation Facilities (STFRF)—A Case Study on Rural Bangladesh

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Proper nourishment is fundamental for satisfactory crop growth and production. However, for efficient crop production, it is important to understand the soil environment, to recognize the limitations of that environment, and to ameliorate them where possible without damaging the soil quality. Soil testing and fertilizer recommendation facilities (STFRF) can help farmers to achieve environmental and economic sustainability by assisting them in recognizing their soil condition, reducing agrochemicals usage, using an appropriate amount of fertilizer, minimizing input costs, and achieving higher yield. These facilities are not new in the context of Bangladesh, yet the adoption rate among farmers is low and its determinants have rarely been empirically tested based on microlevel data. Therefore, this study examined those factors underlying the adoption of soil testing and fertilizer recommendation facilities using field surveyed data of 176 individual farmers. Our evidence shows that young farmers with less farming experience are more likely to adopt these facilities. Additionally, being small-scale farmers, having higher education, having more farming income, and having more knowledge about these facilities and the fees of these facilities were found to have a significant effect on the adoption. On the other hand, gender, land ownership, and secondary income were found to be insignificant with regard to the adoption of soil testing and fertilizer recommendation facilities. Our results also revealed that most adopter farmers not only focused on profitability, but were additionally concerned with environmental well-being.

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“…1) The hypothesis that chooses the appropriate functional form for binary logit model that canadequately represent the data was tested. In fact the choice of functional form has insignificant effect on the overall results and limited effect onempirical efficiency measurement in particular [12]. H 0 : β 1 = β 2 =…..= β 14 = 0.…”

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“…[1][2][3] despite agriculture accounting for 90% of the country's exports and employment opportunities, the sector did not receive the attention it deserved until the third five-year development plan from 1967 to 1973. The problems that emanate from agriculture at grass roots level are identified by Extension Personnel and related to the researchers for plausible solutions [4][5]. The researchers then provide information through recommendationsthe leaders who distribute improved technologies [6].…”

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Evaluation of the Determinants of Smallholder Famers’ Participation in Agricultural Extension in Western Ethiopia

Goshu¹

2019

IJAE

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The study brought new estimates of determinants of smallholder farmers' decision to participate in agricultural extension service in Western Ethiopia using 2017/18 farm household survey data. Multi-stage proportionate random sampling technique wasused to collect farm data of 360 households of which 245 farm households are participants and the remaining 115 farm households are non-participants in extension service. Both quantitative and qualitative research method was used and Primary data was obtained using structured questionnaires. Secondary data was also collected from reports, journals, past research works, official documents and the internet. The result of maximum likelihood estimation showed that sex of household, education level of household, family size, age of household, experience in extension, farming experience, farmers' access to social network and DAs' frequency of visitwere found to be significant determinants for the household participation in agricultural extension services. The conclusion is that the local and regional government should focus and invests massively in supply of extension services to smallholder farmers in order to promote crop production and food consumption.

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Factors Affecting Performance of Agricultural Extension: Evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo

Cited by 93 publications

References 41 publications

Farmer perceptions of legumes and their functions in smallholder farming systems in east Africa

Farmer perceptions of legumes and their functions in smallholder farming systems in east Africa

Investigating Key Factors Influencing Farming Decisions Based on Soil Testing and Fertilizer Recommendation Facilities (STFRF)—A Case Study on Rural Bangladesh

Evaluation of the Determinants of Smallholder Famers’ Participation in Agricultural Extension in Western Ethiopia

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