Volume 2 (Issue 1) 2022 Article 4

ABSTRACT:

The paper assessed the impact of IFAD-Community Based Agricultural and Rural Development Projection the livelihood of smallholder crop farmers in Katsina State. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 347 participating farmers from the twelve participating communities in the study area. Also, three hundred and fourty-seven (347) non-participating farmers were selected using systematic random sampling from the neighbouring communities to serve as control group, this gave a total of 694respondents. Also, 3 IFAD-CBARDP officials from each LGA were randomly selected as respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive, chow test and Z-test statistics. On the impact of the programme activities on yield, income and level of living, F-Chow analysis revealed that for yield, F-calculated(21.66) was greater than F-table (9.89), for income, the F-calculated (13.62) was greater than F-table(9.89) and for level of living, the F-calculated (140.09) was also greater than F-table (9.89) which implied that the project had impact on the yield, income and level of living of the participating farmers. The finding also shows that all (100%) of the respondents indicated low counterpart funding from the State and LGAs as the major problem that constrained the implementation of the project. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that government and non-governmental organizations dealing with extension should embark more on the facilitation techniques of extension delivery used by the IFADCBARDP in the project areas. This would enable farmers to identify their problems, determine their needs and discover their potentials themselves rather than always feeding their clients with information. Funding of extension activities should be centrally coordinated, with contributions made by all the three tiers of government. Farmers are also advised to form themselves into viable and functional cooperatives for easy access to credit facilities, agricultural inputs and markets for their agricultural produce.