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Willingness to pay of Nigerian poultry producers and feed millers for aflatoxin‐safe maize

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Title Willingness to pay of Nigerian poultry producers and feed millers for aflatoxin‐safe maize
 
Creator Johnson, A.M.
Abdoulaye, Tahirou
Ayedun, B.
Fulton, J.R.
Widmar, N.J.O.
Akande, A.
Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit
Manyong, Victor
 
Subject aflatoxins
poultry
farmers
maize
livestock
animals
 
Description Open Access Article
Dietary aflatoxin exposure is a widespread problem in the developing world and causes severe negative health consequences to humans and livestock animals. A new biological control product, called Aflasafe, has been introduced in Nigeria to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of maize in the field and in storage. No known prior work has estimated how much African agribusinesses using maize for animal feed will pay for aflatoxin‐safe maize. This study measured the levels of Aflasafe awareness, surveyed current aflatoxin management practices, and estimated, using choice experiments, willingness to pay (WTP) for aflatoxin‐safe maize by Nigerian poultry producers and feed millers. Data was gathered from 272 orally administered surveys, which included discrete choice experiments examining maize purchasing decisions. Results suggest that the proportion of enterprises that were aware of aflatoxin was found to vary across states. Two latent classes of Nigerian poultry producers and feed millers were identified that were willing to pay average premiums of 4.9% and 30.9%, respectively for maize with 10 parts per billion (ppb) aflatoxin concentration relative to maize with 20 ppb aflatoxin concentration. Both latent classes were, on average, willing to pay larger premiums for maize with 4 ppb aflatoxin concentration. There was evidence that latent class membership, and hence WTP, varied based on awareness of aflatoxin and across geographies.
 
Date 2020-04
2019-10-10T08:51:36Z
2019-10-10T08:51:36Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Johnson, A.M., Abdoulaye, T., Ayedun, B., Fulton, J.R., Widmar, N.J.O., Adebowale, A., ... & Manyong, V. (2019). Willingness to pay of Nigerian poultry producers and feed millers for aflatoxin‐safe maize. Agribusiness, 1-19.
0742-4477
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/104023
https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21621
PLANT PRODUCTION & HEALTH
SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRICUSINESS
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 299-317
application/pdf
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Source Agribusiness