Department of Economics, Federal University, Wukari, Nigeria
Online published on 22 January, 2015.
The study was carried out to assess the impact of WIA Programme of BNARDA on Women farmers in Makurdi LG, in respect to the level of adoption of technologies promoted, increase in farm output and the problems encountered through participation. Out of 120 questionnaires administered in the three agricultural extension blocks using stratified random sampling, 118 were recovered and analysed. From descriptive data analysis, the study revealed that the use of improved cassava varieties, fertilizer application, and dry season vegetable farming technologies have been mass adopted. The problems which the women farmers faced were difficulties in securing land as well as obtaining loans from financial institutions. The Recommendations are made for linking up of WIA groups with lending financial institutions for easy granting of credit facilities, and timely provision of fertilizer and agro-chemicals directly to women group.
