Public Servants Engagement and Expected Roles in Enhancing Increased Agricultural Production and Reduction in Food Prices in Delta State, Nigeria.
Journal Title: Advance Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Discoveries - Year 2019, Vol 36, Issue 36
Abstract
Public servants constitutes a vital segment of the working class population of Delta State that could be productively engaged in agriculture.. There is no documented statistics of Public Servants engagement and their required roles in increasing agricultural production and reduction in food prices in Delta State. The study was therefore designed to investigate Public Servants engagement and expected roles in enhancing increase agricultural production and reduction in food prices in Delta State. A cross-sectional research design was adopted. A sample of 655 from the State Civil Service (170), Post-Primary Education Board,(185) State Universal Basic Education Board (160),Boards, Parastatals and Government Owned Companies(70) as well as Tertiary Institutions (70) was taken. The Public Servant perceptions were rated using questionnaires and focus interviews, with the hypothesis tested using analysis of variance at 5% level of significance. Five hundred and ninety Public Servants representing 90.08% responded. The finding of the study show that Public Servants in most of the organizations believe that they should be engaged in agricultural production as they have a vital role to play;. Majority of the public servants in the state civil service (48.24%), Post Primary Education Board (31.35%), State Universal Basic Education Board (20.63%) and Tertiary Institutions (18.57%) consider provision of a percentage of their income to support research and development, volunteering to serve in government agric. programmes, formation of specialized farmers’ co-operative societies, fashion of new technologies to increase cultivated area and suggestion to government of appropriate and workable agricultural policies as their expected roles, while majority of the public servants in the Boards, Parastatals of government owned companies (22.86%) have a contrary view; Public servants in all the organizations believe that government needed support should arise from allocation of land, provision of farm inputs, guaranteeing of loans, organization of capacity building programme, reduction of work time, provision of work, free days, outright purchase of harvested products, provision of free transportation scheme and increase in salary and allowances. The study recommends that the Delta State government should set up a Public Servant farmers empowerment scheme, improve public servants access to land, provide highly subsidized farm inputs and encourage public servants to levy a small assessment of their sales to support agricultural production.
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Kator P. E
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