Transformation approach.
This agricultural development strategy takes a quick or drastic trend. It aims at changing the farmer from a peasant to a modern one, in the shortest time possible. The strategy, therefore, involves:
- Changing a peasant farmer into a modern one in the shortest time possible.
- Encouraging large-scale farming, intensive, co-operative and/or state farms.
- Eliminating use of outdated farming techniques.
- Organizing the entire agricultural sector to highly productive one.
- Launching the use of modern crop varieties.
- Introduction and use of capital intensive production techniques in agriculture.
- Putting in place land reform policies and programmes e.g. new settlement schemes where land tenure hinders extensive farming activities.
- Developing high yielding species and other improved farming systems in the sector.
- It should, however, be noted that the approach has some problems such as.
- Widespread illiteracy among the peasants.
- High expenditure on management.
- Weak participation by government.
- High costs on the required inputs.
- Resistance by farmers to move to new settlement schemes.
- Conservatism among peasants to discard outdated farming methods.