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Impacts of inventory credit, input supply shops, and fertilizer microdosing in the drylands of Niger

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Title Impacts of inventory credit, input supply shops, and fertilizer microdosing in the drylands of Niger
 
Creator Pender, J
Abdoulaye, T
Ndjeunga, J
Gerard, B
Edward, K
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Fertilizer Appications
 
Description This study investigates the impacts of access to inventory credit (warrantage), input supply shops,
fertilizer micro-dosing demonstrations, and other factors on farmers’ use of inorganic and organic
fertilizer in Niger, and the impacts on crop yields. We find that access to warrantage and input shops and
participation in fertilizer micro-dosing demonstrations have increased use of inorganic fertilizer. Access
to off-farm employment and ownership of traction animals also contribute to use of inorganic fertilizer.
Use of organic fertilizer is less affected by these factors, but is substantially affected by the household’s
crop mix, access to the plot, ownership of durable assets, labor and land endowments, and participation in
farmers’ associations. Land tenure influences both inorganic and organic inputs, with less of both on
sharecropped and encroached plots.
Inorganic fertilizer has a positive impact on millet yields, with an estimated marginal value-cost
ratio greater than 3, indicating significant profitability. Organic fertilizer has a positive impact on milletcowpea
yields. We find little evidence of complementarity between inorganic and organic fertilizer.
Since warrantage, input supply shops and fertilizer micro-dosing demonstrations increase use of inorganic
fertilizer which in turn increases millet yields, these interventions indirectly increase millet yields,
although the impacts are relatively small. These findings support promotin g increased input use through
promotion of inventory credit, input supply shops and fertilizer micro-dosing demonstrations. Other
interventions that could help to boost productivity include promotion of improved access to farm
equipment and traction animals and improved access to land under secure tenure.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2005
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5282/1/Impact_BI%2Bwarrantage%2Bmicro-dose_ICRISAT_2006.pdf
Pender, J and Abdoulaye, T and Ndjeunga, J and Gerard, B and Edward, K (2005) Impacts of inventory credit, input supply shops, and fertilizer microdosing in the drylands of Niger. In: 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, 12-18 Aug 2006, Queensland, Australia .