SUSTAINABILITY IN AGRICULTURE: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE WITH RESEARCH AND EXTENSION SERVICE AGENCIES
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This study reviews the prospect of fostering sustainable agrarian growth through the
activities of present research and extension service agencies. The analysis shows that very
limited achievements stand to their credit in terms of attainment of set targets, capacity
building, incentive administration, institutional viability and the relationship of their
operations to the performance of the agricultural sector. Among the problems which
undermine their efficiency and sustainability are weak human, institutional and management
capacity. This' is coupled with undue government interference and lack of sustainable
/14nding; propagation of modernisation technologies which tended to undermine traditional
,\ystems; and weak interrelationships and interactions between research and extension
~·ervice efforts and the dominant farming systems. The study concludes by charting a credible
course for sustainability of these institutions as well as agrarian growth.