ABSTRACT
This study aimed at assessing the implementation of advisory services and input support components by Fadama III beneficiaries in Oyo state. The Project Implementation Manual (PIM) of Fadama III advisory services and input support components which involved specific activities the project proposed to execute was being used as a criteria to check the accomplishment of the project as projected. Thus, in determining the gap between ‘what is’ and ‘what ought to be’ beneficiaries of the advisory services of Fadama III were interviewed. A multi-stage sampling technique was adopted to sample 160 respondents in the study area. Data were collected and analyzed using descriptive (frequency count, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential (PPMC, Anova and Chi square) statistics. Two-third of the respondents were male (69.4%) while 30.6% were female. The age distribution of the respondents showed that majority (75%) of the respondents are between the ages of 44-53years, while the youth (3.1%) had the least group.
Majority (82.5%) of the respondents were married with majority of respondents (65.5%) having a household size of between 6-10 family members. A greater proportion (98.1%) of the respondents had one form of formal education with44.4% having completed secondary education while 1.9% never had an opportunity of formal education. Majority of the respondents’were crop producers (30%), 28.1%livestock producers,16.9%fisher folks, 13.1% pastoralist and 11.9% were involved in agroforestry as their primary occupation.
The various categories of beneficiaries (crop producers, livestock producers, pastoralist, fisher folk and agroforestry) benefited majorly from and were satisfied with the advisory services components compared to the input support components in which its implementation did not go beyond the manual.