Impact of Adopted Village Extension Project (AVEP) Agricultural Technologies Transfer on Income of Participants from Selected Research Institutes in Nigeria Impact of Adopted Village Extension Project (AVEP)
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This study determined the impact of Adopted Village Extension Project (AVEP) agricultural technologies transfer on income of participants from selected research institutes in Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select 492 respondents comprising of 246 participants and non-participants, respectively on which structured questionnaire was administered complemented with an interview schedule. Primary data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequency counts, percentages and mean; Gini coefficient model and z-test statistics. Findings from the study revealed that majority (83.7%) of the participants were male and 91.9% were married, while majority (90.2%) of the non-participants were male and 93.1% were married. The mean age, education, farming experience, household size and farm size of the participants were 37 years, 13 years, 13 years, 6 people amd 3 hectares respectively, while mean age, education, farming experience, household size and farm size of the non-participants were 52 years, 8 years, 19 years, 10 people amd 5 hectares respectively. The result of the gini-coefficient for the participants revealed mean annual income of ₦1,008,963 with gini index of 0.4474, while that of non-participants was ₦427,283 with gini index of 0.3001. The z-test statistics value of 27.084 at 1% level of probability revealed that there is a significant difference in income of the participants and non-participants. In conclusion, agricultural technologies transfer through AVEP of research institutes had significant impact of the income of the participants. Therefore, the study recommended that the project should be scaled-up to accommodate more participants and other villages due to the significant impact
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