Does Extension Work? Impacts of a Program to Assist Limited-Resource Farmers in Virginia

Ebere Akobundu, Jeffrey Alwang, Albert Essel, George Norton and Abebayehu Tegene

Review of Agricultural Economics, 2004, vol. 26, issue 3, 361-372

Abstract: In this article the economic impacts of Virginia State University's Small Farm Outreach, Training, and Technical Assistance Program are assessed. Impacts are measured in terms of program effect on incomes of limited-resource participant farmers compared with their net farm incomes had they not participated. The program appears to significantly increase net farm income, provided there is sufficient intensity of participation. A single visit by an agent had no significant effect on income, suggesting a rationale for deepening participation intensity before broadening it. Aggregate program benefits may approach $5 million per year (for a cost of a few hundred thousand dollars). Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2004
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