Comparative Profit Analysis of Rice Production Enterprise among Farmers in Anambra and Ebonyi States, Nigeria

Spreadsheet Based Business Decision Making System (Case Study in Bonorowo Land, Laren, Lamongan)

“…Research on the feasibility of agricultural business in several countries has been widely carried out. In rice cultivation, they analyzed the costs and profitability of small-scale rice farming in Nigeria (Ohen & Ajah, 2015), conducted an analysis of income from rice cultivation in two different regions in Nigeria (Nwalieji, 2016), calculated the Benefit Cost ratio in rice cultivation in Bangladesh (Sujan et al,201), conducted research on calculating profitability and productivity from rice cultivation for three categories of farmers (small, medium and large farmers) on the coast of Bangladesh (Islam et al, 2017), and made a comparison of rice financing and income with brick production businesses in South Sulawesi (Saediman et al, 2019). While in corn cultivation, some researchers compared the profitability and productivity of corn sales using organic farming systems with conventional systems in Kenya (Adamtey et al, 2016), conducted research on the selection of hybrid corn from several different varieties in Nepal, economically and statistically (Ghimire et al, 2016), analyzed the sale of corn yielded with organic fertilizer and inorganic fertilizer (Sekumade, 2017), and made a comparison feasibility of corn and tomato business in Nigeria (Ammani, 2015).…”

Analysis of Parboiled Rice Processing in Northern Region of Ghana: Determinants, Constraints and Opportunities

“…Improving the quality standards of local rice to the level of Asian imports to make it competitive would require large public expenditure in not just equipment but more importantly on training (Wailes et al, 2015). Poor extension services visit to farmers and processors remains a major constraint in the rice sector (Nwalieji, 2016). The second identified constraint is the low capacity of processing equipment which manifests in reduced volumes.…”

“…Financing for parboiling rice processing is non-existent from formal sources and processors had to rely on friends, relatives and VSLA groups meagre loans to support their operations. As reported by Nwalieji (2016) inadequate funds for start-ups and difficulty in obtaining loans hinders the efficient production of quality rice. Linn and Maenhont (2019) noted that financial constraints impacts on infrastructure investment in rice value chains which make it structurally inefficient.…”

“…Constraints faced by the local rice industry which makes it less competitive includes high production and processing costs, difficulty in obtaining credit, poor quality of local rice, poor packaging, and limited use of advanced technologies in processing. Poor farm management practices (late harvesting, water logging), post-harvest practices by farmers (harvesting, threshing, drying, and storage of paddy), poor extension service delivery coupled with the use of sub-standard processing infrastructure in rice milling contributes to the poor quality of local rice (Manful et al, 1998;Seck et al, 2010;Nwalieji, 2016). Grading techniques and grading attributes are essential in rice milling as it ensures that the quality standards demanded by consumers are met (ChePa et al, 2016).…”

Analysis of Technical Efficiency of USAID-MARKETS II Project Participant and Non-Participant Rice Farming Households in Ebonyi State, Nigeria

“…Literatures have proven that smallholder farmers in Nigeria are still inefficient in their resources utilization [7], [8], [14]- [17], and therefore are not maximizing their resources' potentials. Research works [18], [19] conducted on Ebonyi rice production, failed to look into the efficiency with which the participants of government rice projects utilizes the available/given…”