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Book Synopsis of the Nigerian Rice Economy

Download or read book Synopsis of the Nigerian Rice Economy written by Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nigerian Rice Economy

Download or read book The Nigerian Rice Economy written by Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Nigerian Rice Economy the authors assess three options for reducing this dependency - tariffs and other trade policies; increasing domestic rice production; and improving post-harvest rice processing and marketing - and identify improved production and post-harvest activities as the most promising. These options however, will require substantially increased public investments in a variety of areas, including research and development, basic infrastructure (for example, irrigation, feeder roads, and electricity), and rice milling technologies.

Book The Nigerian Rice Economy

Download or read book The Nigerian Rice Economy written by Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute.

Book Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Trade Liberalization

Download or read book Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Trade Liberalization written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication sets out an integrated assessment of the economic, social and environmental impacts of rice production in Nigeria within the framework of trade liberalisation, particularly the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA). This is part of an UNEP research project which has also examined impacts on other rice producing countries including China, Colombia, Senegal and Indonesia.

Book Estimating financing gaps in rice production in southwestern Nigeria

Download or read book Estimating financing gaps in rice production in southwestern Nigeria written by Temitope O. Ojo and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzed the financing gaps relative to production frontier of rice farmers in Southwestern Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to collect cross sectional data from 360 rice farmers selected from three States in the region. A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier and an adapted form of Harrod-Domar (HD) Growth model was employed to determine the financing gap required for the farmers to be at the frontier level. The empirical results of the frontier model show that quantity of labor, quantity of rice as planting material and herbicides were statistically significant in explaining the variations in the efficiency of rice production in Nigeria. However, age, gender, farming experience, household size, access to credit, access to information, adoption of improved variety and location of rice farmers as sources of technical inefficiencies. As revealed by the result of the HD growth model, the average amount of credit per season that farmers had access to was, ₦38,630.56 while the mean financing in the form of credit required to produce at the frontier level was ₦193,626.50, showing a financing shortfall of about 80%. As unravelled by the result of the study, it can thus be concluded that technical efficiency of rice farmers can be improved by improving access to timely credit and agricultural information for improving rice productivity. These findings suggest that filling the financing gap of smallholder rice farmers will improve rice productivity in Nigeria. The study, therefore, recommends that strengthening the existing technology by building farmers’ capacity on farm management practices would be surest means of improving rice productivity growth in Nigeria. This would not only contribute to the intensification of rice production in Nigeria to meet its increasing rice demand, but also improve rice farmers’ productivity and their households’ incomes.

Book Value Chain Analysis of Local Rice  Oryza glaberrima  Production in Ebonyi State  Nigeria

Download or read book Value Chain Analysis of Local Rice Oryza glaberrima Production in Ebonyi State Nigeria written by Udeme Usanga and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Agrarian Studies, grade: Conference Research Paper, National Open University of Nigeria (National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike), course: Agricultural Production Economics, language: English, abstract: This study examined local rice production and value addition in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Data were purposely collected from Ishiagu and Abakiliki from 144 rice value chain actors. It was found that wholesalers enjoy the largest share of the marketing margin, where at cross boundary markets, the wholesalers’ profit goes as higher as N76.0/kg as compared to N39.5/kg, received by local farmers, showing unequal distribution of benefits among the local rice value chain actors, where reward to traders is extremely higher than that of producers. The profitability analysis shows a net return of N4, 085 with a BCR of 1.14:1, meaning that local rice production is viable and profitable in the area. Two separate multiple regression analysis, using the double-log regression as the lead equation for the producers (farmers) gave R2 of 0.923 and F-Ratio of 51.031, being an indication that 92.3% of the variation in the rice output was explained by the explanatory variables, while 7.70% was accounted-for due to error term (ei) and uncaptured variables. For the secondary value chain actors (transporters, millers, wholesalers and retailers), the exponential function gave R2 of 0.782 and F-Ratio of 38.104, being an indication that 78.2% of the variation in the rice output was explained by the explanatory variables (socio-economic characteristics) while 21.8% was accounted-for due to stochastic error term (ei) and uncaptured variables. The study recommended improvement of effectiveness in cooperative membership to attract finance for rice production, inputs and value addition, purchase of machines for processing and packaging, transportation and marketing. Furthermore, lack of adequate agricultural infrastructure and market information systems was observed to be critical areas of policy concerns. Policies for microcredit institutions on provision of credits to local rice farmers are also recommended to improve rice productivity by capacitating smallholder farmers to use modern agricultural machinery.

Book Socio economic Characterization of Upland Rice Production in Nigeria

Download or read book Socio economic Characterization of Upland Rice Production in Nigeria written by Heiko Zeller and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the FAO Rice Conference 2004

Download or read book Proceedings of the FAO Rice Conference 2004 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Year of Rice (IYR) promotes improved production and access to this vital food crop, which feeds more than half the world's population while providing income for millions of rice producers, processors and traders. To celebrate IYR, FAO convened and international rice conference, which was open to the participation of governments, research institutions, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. The growth in rice consumption has starting to slow down; this publication aims to explain why and how, and draws together all the presentations pertaining to one of the general themes of the Conference: rice in the context of global markets.

Book Recent Advances in Rice Research

Download or read book Recent Advances in Rice Research written by Mahmood-Ur- Rahman Ansari and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Recent Advances in Rice Research” is an interdisciplinary book dealing with diverse topics related to recent developments in rice research. The book discusses the latest research activities in the field of hybrid rice, various metabolites produced in rice and its biology, stress studies, and strategies to combat various biotic and abiotic stresses as well as rice economics, value addition, and product development. The book is written by an international team of researchers from all over the globe sharing their results in the field of rice research. I am hopeful that the scientific information available in this book will provide advanced knowledge for rice researchers, students, life scientists, and interested readers on some of the latest developments in rice research.

Book Economic Burden of Diseases and Rice Production Efficiency in Nigeria

Download or read book Economic Burden of Diseases and Rice Production Efficiency in Nigeria written by Sakiru Oladele Akinbode and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A substantial proportion of rice needs in Nigeria is still imported and there is need to increase production. Supply of labour is reduced when household members are beset with diseases. This study investigated the economic implications of diseases among rice farming households and how it affects efficiency of rice production. A total of 208 rice farming households were sampled.Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, cost of illness analysis, costs and returns analyzes, Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Tobit regression analysis. Majority of the farmers did not have contact with extension agents and 56% had no access to credit. They acquired land by inheritance (61%). Households incurred substantial cost due to illnesses (about half of which were time cost) and lost average of 12 days to illnesses during the rice production cycle. The return to scale estimation revealed that farmers in Ogun state were operating in stage I, hence, the need to employ more inputs. The shortfall in efficiency mean output can still be improved using certain corrective measures. The study recommended more extension services including health education to cover more villages among other thin

Book Optimal tariffs with smuggling

Download or read book Optimal tariffs with smuggling written by Johnson, Michael E. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing a spatial multi-market model for rice in Nigeria that explicitly takes into account the potential for smuggling, in this paper we analyze the welfare implications of alternative rice tariff rates given the government’s goals of spurring domestic production and reducing imports. Because smuggling occurs through the diversion of imports from Lagos, the official port of entry in the south, to the north, our modeling framework also captures the spatial effects of higher tariffs on changes in rural and urban prices, production and consumption, the flow of trade in rice, and welfare across different parts of the country. Results show that tariff rates that exceed about 40 percent introduce some smuggling of rice through the north when smuggling becomes more profitable than importing through official channels in the south. It is also at this tipping point that government tariff revenues are maximized. At higher tariff rates with smuggling, the south experiences greater welfare losses, especially in urban areas.

Book The Rice Crisis

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Dawe
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-07-26
  • ISBN : 1136530398
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Rice Crisis written by David Dawe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent escalation of world food prices – particularly for cereals - prompted mass public indignation and demonstrations in many countries, from the price of tortilla flour in Mexico to that of rice in the Philippines and pasta in Italy. The crisis has important implications for future government trade and food security policies, as countries re-evaluate their reliance on potentially more volatile world markets to augment domestic supplies of staple foods. This book examines how government policies caused and responded to soaring world prices in the particular case of rice, which is the world's most important source of calories for the poor. Comparable case studies of policy reactions in different countries, principally across Asia, but also including the USA, provide the understanding necessary to evaluate the impact of trade policy on the food security of poor farmers and consumers. They also provide important insights into the concerns of developing countries that are relevant for future international trade negotiations in key agricultural commodities. As a result, more appropriate policies can be put in place to ensure more stable food supplies in the future. Published with the Food and Agriculture (FAO) Organization of the United Nations

Book Profit and profitability of Rice Production in Ndop Plain  Cameroon

Download or read book Profit and profitability of Rice Production in Ndop Plain Cameroon written by Fuh George Cheo and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Trade and Distribution, grade: 3.6/5, , language: English, abstract: This study has identified the main actors in the Ndop rice value chain in Cameroon, beginning with the cost of production at the farmer’s level, then the costs or added values at each stage identified along the value chain. It has been shown that farmers incur a production cost of 114,6 Francs per kilogram of paddy rice, which they sell at 120 Francs to millers. In the process along the value chain it is shown that the millers make the highest profit. UNDVA gets the lion’s share (154909,96 Francs) followed by the private miller (105504 Francs) per hectare, while the farmers gets only 27,200 Francs. Further analyses show that the farmer could improve his profit margin by 78,304 Francs if he mills his rice with the private millers and sells to a wholesaler and by 127,709 Francs a if he mills with UNDVA, if he was not financially handicapped and /or restrained from pursuing such an option. Also, the farmer’s profit situation is sometimes worsened by local rice collectors when because of financial constraints he is lured into unfair production pre-financing deals involving taking loans from middlemen to repay in kind at harvest time and at giveaway rates. On other hand, millers further increase their lion’s share of the profit from the sales of rice brand, a byproduct of milled rice, which is never handed to the farmer. Value chain analysis revealed the following weaknesses along the chain: the activities of the actors are as yet uncoordinated; income distribution is unequal and disfavors the farmers; returns to the farmers, who the principal actors, are discouragingly very low and due mainly to high cost of the labour intensive activities, unattractively low producer price(less than a third of the consumer price, and to financial constraints that hinder him from extending his production activities to include milling. Generally in the Cameroon rice market, Ndop rice is less competitive when faced with competition from imported rice, especially that imported from India and Vietnam whose higher quality attracts consumers to the extent that rice dealers prefer dealing with imported rice despite its higher cost, because the consumer market prices are high enough to give them profits higher by up to 1250 francs per 50 kilogram bag when compared to Ndop rice deals.

Book Economics of the Rice Industry of the Western State of Nigeria

Download or read book Economics of the Rice Industry of the Western State of Nigeria written by David Ehigie Osifo and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Effects of the Ban on Imported Foreign Rice on the Nigerian Population and Economy

Download or read book Effects of the Ban on Imported Foreign Rice on the Nigerian Population and Economy written by Yasir Abubakar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ban on imported rice was initiated by the federal government under the leadership of President Muhammad Buhari. The government's main reason to initiate such ban was to improve local rice production and to cut costs in order to reduce the burden on the Nigerian foreign reserve (mainly sourced through crude oil sales).