Relative Profitability of Cassava‐based Mixed Cropping Systems among Various Production Scale Operators in Ogun and Oyo States Southwest Nigeria

Abstract

Cassava is a very important crop in Nigeria by reason of its comparative production advantage over other staples.This study estimated the relative profitability of cassava producers and determined the effects of farm inputs on the level of profit of various scales of cassava producers in Ogun and Oyo States, Nigeria. Cross-sectional data were collected from 265 cassavabased farmers using a multistage sampling technique and were analysed using normalized profit function and budgetary analysis. Results showed that cassava/cowpea enterprise had the highest net margins of N127,249.63/ha and N122,325.73/ha in Ogun and Oyo States respectively. While the use of herbicides had a positive and significant effect on the profitability of small-scale cassava farmers in both states, cassava-cuttings had a positive and significant effect on medium-scale cassava farming in both states. Similarly, labour and farm size had a positive and significant effect on large-scale cassava farming in both states. The study recommends that small and medium-scale farmers should increase the application of herbicide, large-scale cassava operators in Oyo State should increase the use of labour, while those in Ogun State should also increase the cultivated acreage of land.

Determinants of on-farm cassava biodiversity in Ogun State, Nigeria

“…This was in line with the findings of Mutsears et al (1986) who indicated that mixed cropping is normally the predominant cropping pattern in Africa. Agwu and Anyaeche (2007) and Obayelu et al (2013) also observed that cassava is mainly cultivated as a mixed crop in Anambra and Ogun States of Nigeria, respectively. However, the finding is at variance with the findings of the Eze and Nwibo (2014) study in Delta State of Nigeria where mono-cropping production system was the most predominant.…”

“…The farming population is aging with long years of farming experience, which is consistent with the findings of Yakasai (2010) among cassava farmers in Abuja, Nigeria. The high presence of smallholder farmers is characteristic of farm landholding in Nigeria (Obayelu et al 2013) owing to a low level of mechanization of traditional agriculture or land tenure problems. This has the potential to limit the types of varieties a farmer can plant.…”

“…The major food crops grown in the area are rice, maize, cassava, yam and banana. Cassava, the main crop in this study, is mostly grown on small farms, usually intercropped with vegetables, yam, sweet potato, melon, maize, groundnut or other legumes in all parts of the state under the same agroecological condition (Obayelu et al 2013). Primary cash crops include cocoa, kola nut, rubber, palm oil and palm kernels.…”

Management accounting research on farms: what is known and what needs knowing?

“…The Farm Accountancy Data Network's structure of farms' income statements proposed by Argilés and Slof (2001, p. 376) shows that grants/subsidies increase the reported performance of FEs, which is measured using "gross farm income", "farm net value added" or "family farm income". According to Obayelu et al (2013), subventions enable various FEs to produce and sell their products at competitive market prices. Additionally, such grants allow farm(er)s to make long-term investments in new technologies such as wind turbines (Harsh et al, 2010) or irrigation projects (Fatah and Mat-Zin, 2013) that are necessary to address water and energy needs in production processes.…”

Value Addition and Productivity Differentials in the Nigerian Cassava System

“…Production systems have been shown to develop mainly from different ecologies of production, extent of utilization of product, extent of market access, type of cropping system, as well as extent of diversification of production [2]. Within the cassava production system in Nigeria, distinct production systems have been identified by the type of mixed cropping pattern [3,4]. However, with respect to the analysis of cassava production systems on the basis of the extent of value addition and utilization of cassava biomass, there has been a dearth of information.…”