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Technical efficiency and impact evaluation differentials between the adopters and non-adopters of Nerica in the six baseline states in Nigeria

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Title Technical efficiency and impact evaluation differentials between the adopters and non-adopters of Nerica in the six baseline states in Nigeria
 
Creator Obayelu, A.E.
Adeoti, J.O.
Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M.
 
Subject economic
benefit
rice
farmers
poverty
africa
household expenditure
 
Description The study examined the adoption rate of New Rice for Africa (NERICA), technical efficiency differentials of production of these varieties between adopters and non-adopters and the determinants. It further analysed the impact of adoption of NERICA on area cultivated, output, yield, expenditure and total income of rice farmers in the NERICA baseline states in Nigeria. To achieve the objectives, it employed the descriptive statistics, stochastic production frontier and counterfactual outcomes framework of modern evaluation technique (the Local Average Treatment Effect) to analyse 621 rice farmers across the six NERICA baseline states in Nigeria in 2012. The findings show that NERICA adopters were more technically efficient than the non-adopters. In addition, adoption of NERICA was found to significantly increase the areas of land cultivated, output, yield, household expenditure, per capita household expenditure and total income among NERICA adopters by 1.2ha (p < 0.01), 1998.2kg (p< 0.01), 191.2kg/ha (p < 0.1), N13,222.63≈$66.4 (p< 0.05), N2,015.6≈$10.1 (p < 0.05) and N145,098.7 ≈$728.0 (p < 0.01) respectively despite their high level of inefficiency (39 percent) by the adopters. The positive impact of NERICA adoption on rice yields, poverty status measured by the per capita household expenditure and total farm income of farmers is a clear indication that NERICA has the potential to increase rice productivity, reduce poverty and food insecurity. NERICA adoption rate will rise if
more farmers are aware of the varieties in the study. Farmers who had adopted, and government at all levels should therefore intensify their efforts to encourage others rice farmers possibly through the extension agents on the need to grow NERICA varieties so as to increase rice production level, reduce rice importation and ensure a sustainable rice production.
 
Date 2017
2018-11-26T09:53:25Z
2018-11-26T09:53:25Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Obayelu, A.E., Adeoti, J.O. & Dontsop-Nguezet, P. (2017). Technical efficiency and impact evaluation differentials between the adopters and non-adopters of Nerica in the six baseline states in Nigeria. Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 20(1), 03-15.
1336-9261
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98319
https://doi.org/10.15414/raae/2017.20.01.03-15
SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRIBUSINESS
 
Language en
 
Rights All rights reserved; self-archive copy only
Open Access
 
Format 3-15
 
Publisher Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra
 
Source Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics