Efficiency of Rice Farming in Ghana: Policy Implications for Rice Sector Development

Donkor, Emmanuel; Matthews, Nicolette; Ogundeji, Abiodun A.

doi:10.1111/1467-8268.12320

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“…It is evident from Table 3 that the ATT estimates generated from the PSM estimation are higher than the ESR estimate, which may be attributed to the inability of the PSM to account for unobservable factors. The empirical evidence is consistent with the extant studies, which have demonstrated that the application of mineral fertiliser has significantly raised the yields of farmers in Africa [30][31][32].…”

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Mineral Fertiliser Adoption and Land Productivity: Implications for Securing Stable Rice Production in Northern Ghana

Donkor

Owusu

2019

Land

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The promotion of farm innovations, such as mineral fertiliser, is one of the strategies for attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of zero hunger and poverty alleviation in developing countries. However, the adoption of mineral fertilisers has been low in Africa, particularly in Ghana. The present study not only analyses the impact of mineral fertiliser on the land productivity of rice farmers in northern Ghana but also determines factors that are associated with the adoption of mineral fertilisers using a primary dataset from 470 rice farmers. The study employs endogenous switching regression and propensity score matching approaches in the empirical analysis. The result shows that the adoption of mineral fertiliser tends to significantly increase the land productivity of rice farmers by improving soil fertility and making nutrients readily available to rice crops. The empirical finding further indicates that the adoption of mineral fertiliser is positively influenced by land area, seed, improved rice variety and row planting whereas farmers’ location and market distance exert negative effects on mineral fertiliser adoption. To maximise the land productivity of farmers, it is imperative for agricultural policy interventions to promote mineral fertiliser application by targeting key policy variables such as getting fertiliser input market outlets closer to farmers.

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Section: The Impact Of Mineral Fertiliser On Rice Yieldsupporting

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Mineral Fertiliser Adoption and Land Productivity: Implications for Securing Stable Rice Production in Northern Ghana

Donkor

Owusu

2019

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“…This implies that access to information from extension agents and other sources of information improves the efficiency of rice production in Nigeria. This is in consonance with the study of Donkor et al (2018) in their study on efficiency of rice production in Ghana concluded that if agricultural innovation systems is incorporated by the policymakers to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge from researchers to extension agents and then to the agricultural producers, rice production efficiency will be improved.…”

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Estimating financing gaps in rice production in Southwestern Nigeria

Ojo

Ogundeji

Babu

et al. 2020

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Rice is one of the most valuable cereal crops cultivated and consumed all over the world. It is a staple food in several African counties, Nigeria as an example and constitutes a large portion of the diet on a regular basis (Lu et al. 2018). Rice is cultivated in mostly all agro-ecological zones in Nigeria but on a relatively small scale. As asserted by FAO (2015), Nigeria is the continent's leading consumer of rice, one of the largest producers of rice in Africa and simultaneously one of the largest rice importers in the world. Rice is an important food security crop, it is an essential cash crop for it is AbstractThis study analysed the financing gaps relative to production frontier of rice farmers in Southwestern Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to collect crosssectional data from 360 rice farmers selected from three states in the region. A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier and an adapted form of Harrod-Domar (HD) growth model was employed to determine the financing gap required the farmers to be at the frontier level. The empirical results of the frontier model show that quantity of labour, quantity of rice as planting material and herbicides were statistically significant in explaining the variations in the efficiency of rice production in Nigeria. However, age, gender, farming experience, household size, access to credit, access to information, adoption of improved variety and location of rice farmers as sources of technical inefficiencies. As revealed by the result of the HD growth model, the average amount of credit per season that farmers had access to was, 38,630.56 naira (₦) while the mean financing in the form of credit required to produce at the frontier level was ₦193,626.50, showing a financing shortfall of about 80%. As unravelled by the result of the study, it can thus be concluded that technical efficiency of rice farmers can be improved by ameliorating access to timely credit and agricultural information for improving rice productivity. These findings suggest that filling the financing gap of smallholder rice farmers will improve rice productivity in Nigeria. The study, therefore, recommends that strengthening the existing technology by building farmers' capacity on farm management practices would be the surest means of improving rice productivity growth in Nigeria. This would not only contribute to the intensification of rice production in Nigeria to meet its increasing rice demand, but also improve rice farmers' productivity and their households' incomes.

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“…This implies that access to information from extension agents and other sources of information improves the efficiency of rice production in Nigeria. This is in consonance with the study of (Donkor et al, 2018) in their study on efficiency of rice production in Ghana concluded that if agricultural innovation systems is incorporated by the policymakers to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge from researchers to extension agents and then to the agricultural producers, rice production efficiency will be improved. Access to information about agricultural related activities would improve the productivity of farmers (Khanal et al, 2018).…”

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Estimating financing gaps in rice production in southwestern Nigeria

Ojo¹,

Ogundeji²,

Babu³

et al. 2019

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This study analyzed the financing gaps relative to production frontier of rice farmers in Southwestern Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to collect cross sectional data from 360 rice farmers selected from three States in the region. A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier and an adapted form of Harrod-Domar (HD) Growth model was employed to determine the financing gap required for the farmers to be at the frontier level. The empirical results of the frontier model show that quantity of labour, quantity of rice as planting material and herbicides were statistically significant in explaining the variations in the efficiency of rice production in Nigeria. However, age, gender, farming experience, household size, access to credit, access to information, adoption of improved variety and location of rice farmers as sources of technical inefficiencies. As revealed by the result of the HD growth model, the average amount of credit per season that farmers had access to was, ₦38,630.56 while the mean financing in the form of credit required to produce at the frontier level was ₦193,626.50, showing a financing shortfall of about 80%. As unravelled by the result of the study, it can thus be concluded that technical efficiency of rice farmers can be improved by ameliorating access to timely credit and agricultural information for improving rice productivity. These findings suggest that filling the financing gap of smallholder rice farmers will improve rice productivity in Nigeria. The study, therefore, recommends that strengthening the existing technology by building farmers' capacity on farm management practices would be surest means of improving rice productivity growth in Nigeria. This would not only contribute to the intensification of rice production in Nigeria to meet its increasing rice demand, but also improve rice farmers' productivity and their households' incomes.

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Efficiency of Rice Farming in Ghana: Policy Implications for Rice Sector Development

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Mineral Fertiliser Adoption and Land Productivity: Implications for Securing Stable Rice Production in Northern Ghana

Mineral Fertiliser Adoption and Land Productivity: Implications for Securing Stable Rice Production in Northern Ghana

Estimating financing gaps in rice production in Southwestern Nigeria

Estimating financing gaps in rice production in southwestern Nigeria

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