Effectiveness of Training on VADI Project’s Participating Households Productivity in Kwara State, Nigeria

The study examined effectiveness of training on VADI project’s participating households in Kwara State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected by means of structured interview schedule and three stage sampling procedure was used for the selection of 60 respondents; involving the selection of 2 local governments from the state, 2 communities per selected LGAs and sampling of 15 participating households from each of the selected communities. Descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used in analyzing the data. The mean age of the respondents was 49.5 and majority (58.3) were males. The respondents had a positive perception about ARMTI training programmes and unanimously agreed that the training programmes be sustained. Top on the list of challenges identified are inadequate finance (40%), marketing problem (14%) and farmer-herder clashes (14%). There is significant relationship between some selected socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents such as Age (r= 0.814), and farm size (r=0.209) and the perception of respondents on ARMTI training programmes. The study therefore concludes that respondents had a good perception about ARMTI training programmes and adjudged its training as effective in bringing about a significant improvement in their productivity and business enterprise. It was recommended that the institute should develop a more robust framework to capture the key challenges faced by participants of VADI project as this will encourage non-participants to join thereby increasing the spread of the project beyond its present tentacles.