Sources of Risk and Management Strategies as Perceived by Monocrop and Intercrop Farmers in Kebbi State, Nigeria

Jirgi, A. J.; Grové, Bennie; Jordaan, Henry; Viljoen, M. F.; Nmadu, J. N.

doi:10.9734/ajaees/2015/17308

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“…Kebbi State is in the Northwestern region of Nigeria. The State is situated between latitudes 10° 8′ N – 13° 15′ N and longitudes 3° 30′ E − 6° 02′ E, and with an approximate surface area of 36,229 Km 2 [ 10 ]. Kebbi State has both local and international borders.…”

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Medical waste management at the primary healthcare centres in a north western Nigerian State: Findings from a low-resource setting

Omoleke

Usman

Kanmodi³

et al. 2021

Public Health in Practice

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medical waste management at the primary healthcare centres in a north western Nigerian State: Findings from a low-resource setting

Omoleke

Usman

Kanmodi³

et al. 2021

Public Health in Practice

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“…More than half of the respondents (55.83%) had faced the problem 'uncompetitive price and sales channels' and considered it as very serious which were also reported by Jirgi et al [12] and Yap et al [13]. As discussed above, horticultural crops are perishable in nature and due to that those farmers were compelled to sell their produce at competitive prices and due to that farmers didn't get the enough profit and that become constraint for them and reason for nonadoption for the other farmers.…”

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Constraints in Adoption of Intercropping in Horticultural Crops among Farmers of Haryana

Boora

Kaur²,

Tyagi³

et al. 2022

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Intercropping can also be referred to as mixed cropping or Polyculture i.e., cultivating two or more crops in the same space at the same time. The present research was conducted in Haryana state to know the reasons for adoption as well as constraints in adoption of intercropping. The study was conducted in four districts of Haryana namely Bhiwani and Hisar from the dry zone and Karnal and Kaithal from the wet zone of Haryana. Further, two blocks were selected randomly from each district and from each block 15 respondents were selected randomly from clusters of villages. Hence, a total of 120 respondents were selected for the purpose of the study. The study revealed major constraints in adoption of intercropping by the farmers. No MSP for horticultural crops, lack of storage facilities, harvesting problems, expert management, labour intensive, uncompetitive price etc. as the major constraints to the farmers which could be the possible reasons for non-adoption of intercropping by the other farmers. This study recommends introducing of Minimum Support Price for horticultural crops and there should be facility of cold storage for horticultural produces of the farmers.

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“…For the game used in this study, each risk aversion category corresponds to an interval of partial risk aversion (S). The wealth (W) and the certainty equivalent of a new prospect (M) were provided (Jirgi et al, 2016).…”

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“…The www.jard.edu.pl approach is similar to that used to collect lottery-choice data in a field experiment by Binswanger (1980). The lottery-choice procedure was used by Yesuf (2007), Kouamé (2010), and Miyata (2011) and more recently by Jirgi et al (2016). In the experiments, respondents were presented with a set of alternative prospects involving hypothetical payments.…”

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Effects of risk attitude on the technical efficiency of small-holder rice farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria

Obinka,

Afolami,

Akerele

2023

J. Agribus. Rural Dev.

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The growth and development of the agricultural sector in developing countries is largely dependent on technological enhancements, because merely expanding the area of farm cultivation is no longer sufficient to meet the increasing food needs of growing populations. This study examined the effects of risk attitudes on the technical efficiency of smallholder rice farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected for the study using a multi-stage sampling technique, and 180 rice farmers were selected from the study area. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, stochastic frontier analysis and a simple lottery-choice experiment. The findings revealed that 36.1% of the farmers were between the ages of 31 and 40. Farmers who were 41 years and over were seen to be more risk averse than their younger counterparts. In this age group, 76.66% of rice farmers were risk averse, while 23.34% were risk tolerant. The result of the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) of the parameters of the stochastic frontier analysis revealed that farm size positively and significantly influenced rice output (β = 0.16, p < 0.1), as did quantity of seed (β = 0.74, p < 0.01) and use of chemicals (β = 0.26, p < 0.01). Years of farming had a negative effect on technical efficiency (β = 0.64, p < 0.01), as did severe risk aversion (β = 0.57, p < 0.1). The study concludes that small-holder farmers are generally risk averse, negatively influencing technical efficiency in the study area. The study recommends that the design of government programs should incorporate farmers' risk attitudes as an important variable.

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Sources of Risk and Management Strategies as Perceived by Monocrop and Intercrop Farmers in Kebbi State, Nigeria

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Medical waste management at the primary healthcare centres in a north western Nigerian State: Findings from a low-resource setting

Medical waste management at the primary healthcare centres in a north western Nigerian State: Findings from a low-resource setting

Constraints in Adoption of Intercropping in Horticultural Crops among Farmers of Haryana

Effects of risk attitude on the technical efficiency of small-holder rice farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria

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