Fadama I was implemented through the LSADA system (1992 and 1999) with significant impact on crop farmers whose yield increased within the period and with significant increase in income. The emphasis in the first NFDP was on provision of wash bores to crop farmers through simple credit arrangement aimed at boosting aggregate crop output.
FADAMA II
- One hundred and eighteen (118) Local Development Plans (LDPs) containing 871 Sub-projects was approved and was about 90% implemented
- 497 Productive Assets (PAAS) and 105 Rural Infrastructures (RII) sub-projects were completed
- Between the period of project inception in 2004 and June 2009; 118Fadama Community Associations and 784 Fadama User Groups benefited from the project.
- 42 Borehole and Water Reticulation sub-projects to support all year round vegetable farming and improve livestock production in 9 LGAs and covering 16 FCAs
- 28 Road Rehabilitation/Construction sub-projects (covering a length of 49 km) to improve access in farming communities and link communities that had hitherto cut off to easy inputs and output markets in 6 LGAs
- 8 Markets Renovation/Construction with toilet facilities and water supply to provide ready market outlets for major food producing areas in Lagos Island, Ikorodu, Ibeju-Lekki, Eti-Osa and Epe LGA
- 24 Cold Rooms Construction sub-projects sited in markets to reduce post-harvest crop losses and preserve fishery and livestock products in 6 LGAs (Kosofe, Lagos Island, Ikorodu, Surulere, Ojo and Alimosho).
- 25 Construction/Rehabilitation of Livestock houses (Poultry and Piggery) sub-projects to improve livestock housing in Ojo, Lagos Island and Alimosho LGAs
- 1 Cattle Colt and Slaughter Slab to add value to livestock products in Ojo LGA.
- Details of Assets benefited are as follows;
- 156 No. Outboard Engines
- 152 Wooden Canoes of various sizes
- Over 314 Bundles of Fishing Nets and other Fishing Gears have been given to fishermen in the coastal areas to promote artisanal fishing
- 196 Water Pumps and Hoses
- 144 Generators of varying capacities
- 302 Earthen Ponds and 338 Concrete Ponds have been constructed to support homestead fish farming to reduce reliance on artisanal fishing for domestic fish supply
- 176 Units of Battery Cages to support poultry production
- 70 Knapsack Sprayers and other Farming implements to support crop farmers
- 122 Agro-processing equipment to support processors and empower physically challenged people.
- Results from the project’s Implementation Completion Review (ICR) report revealed that the Income of Fadama II beneficiaries increased by nearly 68%. This was quite remarkable when compared to the 20% target.
- Worthy of mention are the artisanal fishermen in Epe and Ibeju-Lekki LGAs of the State. They represent over 50% of the beneficiaries of Pilot Assets such as Outboard Engines, Canoes, Fishing gears, Earthen and Concrete fish ponds.
- The acquired assets resulted in increases in the number of fishing trips and fish catch (from weekly average of 3,900kg to 7,847kg).Increase in fish catch translated into increase in income of Fadama users.
- A total of 118 LDPs were prepared, from which 105 were successfully implemented. This represents 88.9% of the total LDPs prepared.
- Conflicts over Fadama resources were generally low in the state with negligible losses in value. According to the Community Listing Survey done in 2006, the reported cases of conflicts fell from 3.54% in 2005 to 2.5% in 2006. Subsequent studies have reported over 90% decline in conflict cases.
FADAMA III
- The direct beneficiaries of the project in Lagos state is estimated at about 10,000 households of Fadama resource users and non-resource users who live in Fadama communities
- A total no of 97 LDPs were produced, reviewed and approved. A total of 567 Sub-project proposals were prepared with 523 fully implemented across the 20LGAs.
- The Project initiated and executed various strategies for successful implementation of Fadama Users’ Equity Fund (FUEF) with active participation of Banks and Community groups through sensitization and mobilization effort. The sum of =N=37,201,132.60 was verified to have been saved in FUEF Accounts of various Fadama Users Groups.
- The interests of vulnerable groups were taken care of in the implemented sub-projects with benefits to 13 FUGs representing about 3% of the disbursement to Productive Assets Acquisition
- The project established The Fadama Information Knowledge Service (FIKS) centre for e-extension and dissemination of farming information – input and output prices, weather reports, etc
- The project created 10,826 jobs (2,500 being additional regular hands engaged and 10,000 temporary) by Fadama Users due to growth and expansion.
- The Project Development Objective of the project was significantly achieved with the following milestones recorded;
- The midline impact study showed that 94% of the project direct beneficiaries in the state increased their income by at least 40%. This surpassed the Project target of 75% by project end.
- The midline Impact study also showed that 14% of Fadama beneficiaries in the state escaped poverty between 2009 and 2012 with 6% being as a result of Fadama III Project direct benefit.
- Appreciable increase in the yield of major primary Agricultural products in the State
- 11.4% of the replacement value of the common asset used for income generating activities of FUGs is saved
- 80% of Fadama users are satisfied with operations, maintenance & utilization of community-owned infrastructure & capital assets
- Provision of 16no Boreholes with Water Reticulation and 11no open wells Sub-projects to support all-year-round vegetable farming, improve livestock production and Market hygiene in Fadama Community Associations across the State.
- 7no Market Renovation/Construction sub-projects made of 179 open stalls and 4 lock up shops with toilet facilities and water supply to provide ready market outlets for major food producing areas in Alimosho, Ifako-Ijaye, Lagos Island, Eti-Osa, Epe, Mushin and Agege LGAs. This includes the two Agro Spots constructed under innovation to serve as contact points for Farmers and serving the public service community easy access to food Markets.
- 1no Feed milling housing and equipment to reduce cost of Fish farming in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area.
- 1no Small Bridge (100m) to create access to Market in Ibeju-Lekki LGA.
- 3no Cold Room Construction Sub-projects sited in markets to reduce losses and preserve fishery and livestock products in 2 LGAs (L/Mainland and Eti-Osa)
- Construction/Rehabilitation of Processing sheds for value addition to Crops and Fisheries Enterprises across the State
- Provision of 9,556 units of productive Assets acquired by 496 Fadama Users Group to support production, processing and marketing of agricultural goods across the state. These include Outboard Engines, Wooden Canoes, Bundles of Fishing Nets, Fishing Gears, Water Pumps and Hoses, Generators of varying capacities, Earthen Ponds, Concrete Ponds, Deep freezers, Battery Cages amongst several others.
- Provision of Advisory Services and Input Support to 521 FUGs in 90 FCAs across the State.
- Matching grants to 139 Fadama Users’ Group in 37FCAs for Agricultural Inputs Support
- Capacity Building of 79 Fadama Community Associations, 384 Fadama Users’ Groups and 80 LGAs Staff (including Council Chairmen) on Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, LDP Preparation and Sustainability.
- Adoption of Community Driven Development approach, local integration and ownership for improved Governance at some of the participating LGAs.
- Promotion of SMEs and indirect benefits to about 100,000 individuals and small business owners as service providers, transporters, artisans, Fadama users’ employees, amongst several others within the chain.
- The mean household income of the FUG members in Lagos State grew by an average of 77.2%from a revised estimate of N323, 214.84/household/annum at baseline in 2009 to N548, 206.65/household per annum at midline in 2013.
- As much as 94% of households of the FUG members were able to achieve the Project Development Objective (PDO) target of recording over 40% increase in household income between the baseline and the midline.
- Majority (81.0%) recorded 40 – 80% growth in their household income while as much as 12% had their income growing by more than 100%.
- The growth in household income among FUG members was much higher in non-farm activities (86.8%) than in farming activities (74.1%).
- The mean percentage income growth among the youths (30 years old or younger) was 95.1% and 88.2% among female headed households.
- Virtually all the vulnerable groups achieved the PDO target of recording over 40% increase in household income between the baseline and the midline
- The incidence of poverty among households of FUG members in the sample declined by 14% between baseline and midline, with 6.4% reduction in poverty attributable to direct benefits from Fadama III.
- Average area devoted to crop production increased by about 4% between the baseline and the midline, with productivity growth of 7.31% between the baseline and midline as against the targeted 20%.
- Area of land devoted to cultivation of improved varieties was revealed to have increased by about 35.7% between the baseline and the midline.
- Overall, 81% of members the FUGs assessed operations, maintenance and utilization of productive assets in use by them as satisfactory.
- There was significant return on Investment of Fadama Farmers across various Enterprise in last couple of years vis-à-vis:
- Aquaculture Enterprise: The average aquaculture enterprise earned 37.7% returns on investment and 15.4% returns on assets.
- Artisanal Fishery: On the average, return on asset employed in artisanal fishery was estimated to be an average of 38.9%, while return on investment was 37.9%.
- Crop Production: The rate of returns on investment (RRI) was much higher on an average vegetable enterprise (132.53%) than what obtains on maize enterprise (87.86%), cassava enterprise (58.06%) and rice enterprise (53.89%).
- Poultry Production: Given the flock size of 465, 339, 734 and 85 birds, the corresponding gross enterprise income were N543,335 for broilers enterprise, N185,118.21 for cockerel enterprise, N1,407,935.13 for the average layers enterprise and N150,750.92 for turkey enterprise respectively.
- Increasing rate of Technologies Adoption leading to increasing productivity and yield.
- Transition of 5 FCAs from subsistence to commercial farmers: comprising Forty (40) Fadama Users
- Improved fish processing technology: Before intervention of Fadama III Project through Advisory Services on ‘improved smoking of cat fish’, fish farmers were always at the mercy of the market women for the sales of the fresh fish. The scenario had however changed as the adoption of the technology of catfish smoking has:-
- Reduced the cost of production to about 10% because they do not need to rear fish up to 1kg before harvest
- Increased the shelve-life of the harvested fish, thus have control over when to sell
- Helped cat fish farmers to exploit other markets as they add value to the smoked fish through improved packaging.
- Marketing Innovation FADAMA AGRO-SPOTs) / Employment Generation: established in 2 LGAs (Ifako Ijaye and Alimosho) where Fadama Users are using to sell fresh farm products. One of the major success stories of the Agro-spot is in job creation.
- Fadama Adopted Village: The adoption of Itun-Agan (a predominantly shrimp processing community) in Amuwo-Odofin LGA as Fadama village was a major milestone. The initiative has made Fadama Project visible in such an island with booming economic activities but lacking in modern day infrastructure.
- Diversification into farming activities of comparative advantage e.g. Mushroom production: In order to optimize the use of land (a major factor limiting agricultural production in Lagos State),
- Adoption of improved cat-fish production technology with the use of collapsible fish tanks:
- Remarkable acquisition of additional assets / infrastructures: many groups achieved this after initial support from the project
- Remarkable Skill Acquisition and Linkage activities: e.g. Lagos State Youth Tie and Dye Group; the group had trained and graduated more than 400 individuals (mainly youths and women scattered across 20 LGA of the State) on tie and dye production. In addition, the groups successfully linked more than 80% of those trained with Lagos State Micro-finance Institution (LASMI) to access take-off capital for tie and dye production. For sustainability and expansion of production activates, the Group had commenced the utilization of her FUEF as revolving loan among members.
- Export of vegetable by Fadama Farmers: for vegetable producers with the intervention of Fadama III Project in the areas of irrigation facilities, capacity building on marketing strategies, input support and advisory service on improved vegetable production and processing technologies, the weekly production capacity of the FUG has increased to about 100kg of Telfaria while their farm land size has also increased to 1.5 hectares. The FUG now exports Telfaria (Ugwu) to South Africa every Tuesday. The exportation which started in 2012 had been constant and steady
FADAMA III Additional Financing
The project had achieved the following across components:
- Drawn about N1.3b as grants to support 1,309 farmers with Capacity Building, Advisory Services, inputs, mechanization, farm/rural infrastructures, etc.
- Built the capacities of 4,000 rice value chain farmers including producers, processors, agro dealers, off takers, etc
- Contributed 10,240 MT of local rice to Lagos state’s food basket through direct intervention.
- Provided 4 tractors and other implements to increase production capacity
- Tracked to have Created 4211 direct jobs and another 2530 indirect jobs
- Directly empowered 1385 individuals through project intervention
- Added 13.6km rural roads to road network in the state for easy access to farmlands across 3 locations
- Provided 2 Aggregation centers for storage of rice paddy and farm inputs at Ikoga (Badagry) and Idena (Epe LGA)
- Provided Irrigation facilities (20ha capacity) for all-season rice production
- Provided 7 Agricultural commodity processing centers across the state
- Promoted Community driven development ethos, hence more beneficiaries can now access more opportunities on their own
- Provided Technical assistance on the farm to improve competencies resulting in increased output and diversification into other commodity value chains with the involvement of private extension services through Agric Services and input Consultants (ASICs))
- More priorities given to the vulnerable: more women and youth represented in FFCA, Clusters and groups. In this wise; Women and youth wings created in the FFCA (52% of participants were female and 46% of participants were youth)
- Established 15 Home Gardens for women across the state to improve family nutritional intake.
- Provided linkages between producer farmers and 17 Agro d2ealers to ensure quality inputs
- Provided linkages between producer farmers and 10 Major Off takers to ensure ready markets for farm produce
- Linked farmers with financial institutions for additional funds; through this alone, more than N50 million had been attracted to the project
- Supplied 5000 productive assets to individual farmers
- Supported 1309 producers with 71,830kg of improved seeds, 8,164 bags of fertilizer, and more than 14,000 liters of agrochemicals
- Increased rice output by 43% from an average of 1.4MT/ha at inception to 3.58MT/ha in 2018 due to the project’s various interventions
- 98%of the Project direct beneficiaries in the State had their income increased by at least 40%. (RRA 2017)
- 17% of value of asset acquired was confirmed to have been saved for replacement of assets (Administrative data).
