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Economic analysis of alternative systems for sorghum production in Southern Mali

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Title Economic analysis of alternative systems for sorghum production in Southern Mali
 
Creator Badolo, F
Kotu, B
Birhanu, Z B
 
Subject Sorghum
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Mali
 
Description This article aims to evaluate sorghum grain yields, cash income
as well as risk-efficient choice associated with treatments of
sorghum under the Africa RISING project in Mali. The analysis
used the survey data related to on-farm trials covering the seasons
2014 and 2015. Four treatments have been experimented
for sorghum including control treatment, treatment with only
manure, treatment with mineral fertilizer, and treatment with
manure and mineral fertilizer. Stochastic dominance analysis
was used to evaluate the cumulative distributions of grain yields
and cash income associated with each treatment. The results
showed that the control treatment for sorghum is dominated by
the manure and fertilizer treatments. The manure and mineral
fertilizer treatment has higher yields and net returns compared
to the three other treatments. The control treatment has a 50%
chance of generating grain yields up to 850 kg/ha, while the
manure treatment, mineral fertilizer treatment, and manure and
mineral fertilizer treatment have the same probability of generating
respectively 1,050 kg/ha, 1,275 kg/ha, and 1500 kg/ha.
The net returns were estimated to US$ 122 for manure and mineral
fertilizer treatment, US$ 87 for treatment with only mineral
fertilizer, and US$ 84 for treatment with only manure. The cumulative
distribution of manure and mineral fertilizer treatment
was to the right of the remaining cropping treatments, indicating
that manure and mineral fertilizer treatment provides higher
returns to smallholder farmers than the alternative treatments
for a given risk level. Risk-averse farmers will prefer treatment
applying manure and mineral fertilizer if they can afford manure
and chemical fertilization.
 
Date 2017-02
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10699/1/174%20PAGE.pdf
Badolo, F and Kotu, B and Birhanu, Z B (2017) Economic analysis of alternative systems for sorghum production in Southern Mali. In: InterDrought-V, February 21-25, 2017, Hyderabad, India.