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In recent decades, the Chinese government launched a socialized agricultural service system to help smallholders quickly modernize. This system helps farmers adopt modern-day farming operations to meet ever-increasing food and fiber requirements. The present study was conducted to analyze the impacts of this system on agricultural production efficiency. To this end, the Hubei province of China was selected, and the required data were retrieved from the Hubei Statistical Yearbook and Rural Statistical Yearbook for the years 2008 to 2019. The entropy method was applied to measure the extent of the adoption of socialized and individual agricultural services, while a data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used for measuring production efficiency. Grey correlation and regression analyses were carried out to analyze the association between production efficiency and agricultural service availability/uptake and the determinants of the former, respectively. The results illustrate that the agricultural socialized service level has increased. Specifically, the service levels of agricultural mechanization and financial insurance increased most rapidly in terms of individual services with the largest numbers of adopters. Science and technology and material services were found to exhibit the most significant relationships with the production efficiency of farmers. The results indicate a greater role of service provision in moderate-to-high-scale development, leading to land productivity and thereby improving agricultural production efficiency. The results also imply a higher demand for socialized agricultural services among farmers considering the value-added potential of such an integrated system with greater spillover options for achieving self-sufficiency in agriculture and ensuring food security.

Using a large household survey data, this study examines the impact of government involvement in agricultural service provision on the use of modern inputs by farmers in Nigeria. The empirical methodology used in this study is based on the multilevel (nested) mixed effects estimator and controls for systematic differences and unobserved heterogeneity across sub-national governments. The empirical findings suggest that government involvement in agricultural service provision positively influences the farmers� input use. However, wealthier farmers are more likely than poor farmers to benefit from such services. The likelihood of farmers� input use significantly varies across states and local government areas. Another important finding indicates that the impact of access to all-season roads on input use is heterogeneous across states; it is insignificant in states where the overall likelihood of fertilizer use is relatively high, but becomes significant and positive in states where the overall likelihood of fertilizer use is relatively low. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; GRP36; GRP32 ; DSGD

The study identified four stages of agricultural cooperatives in Ukraine. Proved that during this period despite the adoption of the state law a number of regulations governing the activities of cooperatives and set the amount of state aid funding was implemented only partially. The author identifies several benefits of agricultural service cooperatives. In the article the basic problems of agricultural cooperation in Ukraine at the legislative level as well as at the local level. The current state of public finance in Ukraine in recent years. It was found that lack of consistent government support and adequate financial support, the poor state of logistics cooperatives and other factors influenced the reduction in their number in Ukraine.An attempt to investigate the status and benefits of cooperation on the example of years of experience of European countries. The author proposes the basic direction that government should do for the development of agricultural cooperatives in Ukraine at all hierarchical levels. Proved that the resource potential of rural areas in the context of inefficient state support remains unrealized. Directions budgetary support of agricultural service cooperatives.

In 2009, Ghana began pursuing the devolution of functions and responsibilities from the central government to the country's 216 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs). Agriculture was among one of the first sectors to be devolved, a process that became effective in 2012. This paper analyzes how this transition has proceeded, with a focus on the implications for agricultural civil servants within the MMDAs, accountability to citizens, and agricultural expenditures. Empirically, the paper draws on a survey of 960 rural households, 80 District Directors of Agriculture (DDAs), district level budget data from 2012 to 2016, and semi-structured interviews with a range of national and local government stakeholders. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; CRP2; GSSP; 5 Strengthening Institutions and Governance; Feed the Future Innovation Laboratory for Food Security Policy (FSP); Capacity Strengthening; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies ; DSGD; PIM ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)