Willingness and Capacity to Pay for Extension Services by Poultry Farmers in Nasarawa State, Nigeria

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Hussaini  Yusuf Ibrahim ¹ (Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Faculty of Agriculture, Nasarawa State University, Keffi)
Gloria  Okoi Dennis ² (Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Faculty of Agriculture, Nasarawa State University, Keffi)
Ernest  Ogezi ³ (Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Faculty of Agriculture, Nasarawa State University, Keffi)

Received: 2015-12-24 Accepted : 2015-12-24 Published : 2013-09-01

Keywords: Extension, willingness, poultry farmers, Capacity Kuppuswamy Scale,

Abstract :

The study determined the willingness and capacity of poultry farmers to pay for extension services in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. At this research used a sample size of 120 poultry farmers. Simple descriptive statistics, Kuppuswamy scale and Logit regression model were used data analysis. The results showed that majority of the poultry farmers (87.5%) indicated their willingness to pay for extension services. In addition, the respondents had preferences for extension services on disease control and vaccination of poultry birds. Majority of the respondents (54.2%) in the study area had either a high capacity to pay for extension services while only 25% had a very high capacity to pay. Most of the respondents (56.7%) preferred to pay on individual extension services basis followed by a preference to pay on annual contract system of payment basis (21.7%). The Logit model, however, revealed that number of birds owned by a farmer and the number of extension services received by the farmer determined their willingness to pay for extension services. The study recommended that livestock extension delivery system in Nigeria should be restructured thorough agricultural extension transformation agenda to allow for private livestock extension outfits to take off in Nigeria.

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