The Effect of Fadama II on Agro-Processing Among Farmers in Adamawa State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the effect of Fadama II project on agro-processing among the benefitting
communities in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Two hundred respondents comprising of Fadama II project
beneficiaries and non-project beneficiaries outside Fadama II communities that matched were randomly
selected from five Local Government Areas each. Based on propensity score matching (PSM) and double
difference estimator (DD), the data were analysed using simple statistical tool. To estimate the impact of
the project, t-test analysis was used to determine the significant difference between the project
participants and non-project participants. The results showed that the difference in quantity of processed
products, price of processed products, amount realised from commercial processing and total income
between the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries were significant at p = 0.05. The paper recommends that
much emphasis be laid on the importance agro-processing among the beneficiaries, the activities of the
project be expanded to cover the whole state, other developmental project like food security project, ADP
etc. should incorporate agro-processing into the mainstream of their activities as it has great potentials
for poverty eradication.