This study examined the effect of Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Programme Phase 1 ATASP 1 on Farmers Performance in Southeast, Nigeria. It used a well structured questionnaire to collect data from a cross section of randomly selected 730 respondents. A combination of analytical tools such as descriptive statistics, Tobit and multiple regression analysis and inferential statistics were used for analysis. The study found that 56.6 of the farmers are males with an average age of 44 years, who are 87.8 married and have 10 years of formal schooling. Apart from over 19 years farming experience, the average 6 people per household is large enough to supply cheap family labour to the farmers. The study found out that the programme interventions are classified into three important components, which are infrastructure, financial market and commodity value chain development. It was also revealed that farmers adopted the following agricultural technologies the use of improved seed varieties, the use of ICT extension facilities, and keeping a good farm processing record to track changes, among others. The study, therefore, recommended among others, that the programme implementers need to be transparent in their disbursement and implementation of the project mandates and that there is a need to improve the literacy level of the farmers, as this will go a long way to improve their possibilities of technology adoption. Johnpaul Chimnedum Onyekineso | Nwankwo Frank "Effect of Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program Phase 1 (Atasp-1) on Farmers' Performance in Southeast, Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-6 , October 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd46407.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/business-economics/46407/effect-of-agricultural-transformation-agenda-support-program-phase-1-atasp1-on-farmers'-performance-in-southeast-nigeria/johnpaul-chimnedum-onyekineso
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Effect of Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program
Phase 1 (Atasp-1) on Farmers’ Performance in Southeast, Nigeria
Johnpaul Chimnedum Onyekineso, Nwankwo Frank
Department of Cooperative Economics and Management, Faculty of Management Sciences,
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
This study examined the effect of Agricultural Transformation
Agenda Support Programme Phase 1 (ATASP-1) on Farmers'
Performance in Southeast, Nigeria. It used a well-structured
questionnaire to collect data from a cross-section of randomly
selected 730 respondents. A combination of analytical tools such as
descriptive statistics, Tobit and multiple regression analysis and
inferential statistics were used for analysis. The study found that
56.6% of the farmers are males with an average age of 44 years, who
are 87.8% married and have 10 years of formal schooling. Apart from
over 19 years farming experience, the average 6 people per
household is large enough to supply cheap family labour to the
farmers. The study found out that the programme interventions are
classified into three important components, which are infrastructure,
financial/market and commodity value chain development. It was
also revealed that farmers adopted the following agricultural
technologies: the use of improved seed varieties, the use of ICT
extension facilities, and keeping a good farm/processing record to
track changes, among others. The study, therefore, recommended
among others, that the programme implementers need to be
transparent in their disbursement and implementation of the project
mandates and that there is a need to improve the literacy level of the
farmers, as this will go a long way to improve their possibil