 Impact of outsourced agricultural extension program on smallholder farmers’ net farm income in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaL.J.S. Baiyegunhi, Z.P. Majokweni and S.R.D. Ferrer Technology in Society, 2019, vol. 57, issue C, 1-7 Abstract: This paper examines the determinants of participation in an outsourced extension programs and its impact of smallholder farmers' net farm income in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to obtain cross-sectional farm-level data from a sample of 300 farm households, using a structured questionnaire for the interview. The determinants and impacts of participation were estimated using the propensity score matching (PSM) to account for sample selection bias. The results show that participation in an outsourced extension program is influenced by age, education, membership of a farmers’ group, and off-farm income, farm size, awareness, trust and participation incentives. Participation in an outsourced extension program was found to have significantly contributed to an increase in net farm income of the participants by about R2700. Policy implications for scaling up outsourced extension service delivery are discussed. Keywords: Outsourced agricultural extension; Net farm income; Propensity score matching; Smallholder farmers; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:teinso:v:57:y:2019:i:c:p:1-7 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2018.11.003 Access Statistics for this article Technology in Society is currently edited by Charla Griffy-Brown More articles in Technology in Society from Elsevier |
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