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My name is Uche N. Chikezie from the Federal University of Technology (FUTO), Nigeria.



I agree with the views of many participants in this FAO email conference.



Huu-Nhuan Nguyen in message 5 said that impact assessment of agricultural research projects in in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam have been conducted in the national or majority languages rather than the minority ethnic communities. This is similar to the impact assessment situation in Nigeria. 



Most government organizations and research institutes focus their Impact assessment more at the regional/national level while paying less attention to Impact assessment at the grassroots/minority communities. This results in a poor assessment of the outcomes and impacts of these agricultural research and technologies. Micro-level  assessment of the farm-level impact of biotechnology research applications is strongly recommended in Nigeria for a more efficient impact assessment of agricultural research project.



Agricultural household modeling in an African farming system recognizes that small-scale farmers produce mainly for the household food consumption and only partly for sale, and manage farm resources accordingly. Hence, there is a need for an analysis of the farmers’ perceptions on the consumption and production attributes of the new varieties, adoption of the outcome of the new research technologies, and for an evaluation of household response to changes in commodity and input prices, as well as access to off-farm employment opportunities.  Supporting the views of Dr. Atse.M.Yapi (Message 51) - the ultimate objective of research effort is "not to produce the technology per se but to impact on the livelihood of the farming communities targeted by the research".



The results from farm household modeling can be used as input data for assessing the national and regional ex-post impact of biotechnology innovations.



Uche N. Chikezie

Department of Biotechnology, 

Federal University of Technology (FUTO),

P.M.B. 1526. Owerri. 

Imo State.

Nigeria 

e-mail: uchikezie (at) yahoo.com



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