Infrastructural development and transformation agenda in Nigeria: Roles of National Fadama Development Project (NFDP) III in Osun State

 

Alawode O. O.

 

Research Article | Published February 2014

Journal of Economics and International Business Management, Vol. 2(1), pp. 1-8

 

 

Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

 

E-mail: busolaferanmi@gmail.com

 

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The National Fadama Development Project (NFDP) III, popularly known as Fadama III Project which is being implemented in 658 Local Government Areas across the States of the Federation is expected to play significant roles in infrastructural support and acquisition of productive assets by able bodied groups, women, unemployed youths and other vulnerable groups. This paper examined the extent of support for rural infrastructure among Fadama Community Associations (FCAs) and productive assets by Fadama User Groups (FUGs) in Osun State. Primary data were generated from a survey of forty-one FCAs that have benefited from infrastructural support and three hundred and twenty seven FUGs across the twenty Fadama III Local Government Areas and Ife East Area Office in Osun State. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the collected data. The findings showed that FCAs benefited in infrastructural support ranging from construction of rural markets, borehole, cold room store, and roads, to enhance production, processing, storage and marketing of farm produce and products. It was concluded that NFDP III has contributed immensely to employment generation among vulnerable groups (FUGs), acquisition of productive assets by able-bodied FUGs for income generation, and brought about transformation of agriculture in Osun State. The project is contributing to the achievement of a key millennium development goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by enhancing income generation of the FUGs, and thereby reducing rural poverty through the enhanced agricultural enterprises.

 

Keywords: Fadama User Group, Fadama Community Association, vulnerable groups, group owned pilot assets, community owned infrastructure.