Abstract:

Most of the studies that have been conducted on the impacts of the Nigeria’s“FADAMA” (cultivation and farming of crops in irrigation conditions) agriculture have beensilent on the aspects of exposure to and adoption of the accompanying FADAMA productionpractices (FPPs). However, studying the effects of these important factors is widely seen aspanacea to the problems confronting the uptake of the associated FADAMA technologies. Thispaper uses the ‘average treatment effect (ATE)’ framework and data collected from 1177households in South-western Nigeria to estimate the actual and potential adoption rates of FPPsand the determinants of their exposure and adoption. About 94% of the sampled households wereexposed to at least one of the FPPs during the 2018/2019 survey period. The actual and potentialadoption rates of at least one FPP were about 33% and 36% respectively in the same period. Themain determinants of exposure and adoption were extension contact, household size, landholding, gender, input and credit access, owning ICT (Information and CommunicationTechnology) assets and location dummies for Abeokuta north, Obafemi Owode, Odeda,Akinyele and Ido Local Government Areas (LGAs). Improving farmers’ awareness and adoptionof productivity enhancing crop production practices is important. This can be achieved byenhancing credit access to facilitate inputs and ICT assets’ acquisition.

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