Cost Efficiency Status of Rice Farmers Participating in IFAD/VCD Programme in Niger State of Nigeria

Sadiq, Sanusi; Singh, Inderjit; Ahmad, Muhammad Makarfi

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“…The innovations and contributions of this study are mainly reflected by the following two aspects: first, using panel data in translog form in the stochastic frontier production function and the cost efficiency decomposition method, this paper explored the factors that influence the cost changes in grain production, including the effects of price adjustment, technological progress and efficiency improvements on the costs of four aspects of effective decomposition. Previous studies have mostly used cross-sectional data or have only used influencing factor analysis methods [30,31], which could not explain long-term cost changes or the impacts of different factor changes on cost increases. Second, this paper explored the reasons for the rise in the costs of different types of grains.…”

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Cost Changes and Technical Efficiency of Grain Production in China against a Background of Rising Factor Prices

Zhu

Hong

2022

Sustainability

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Based on panel data for the inputs and outputs of the three major staple grains (rice, wheat and corn) in China from 2000 to 2020, we calculated the cost efficiency using the stochastic frontier cost function model and examined the effects of cost changes for the three major grains to explore the sources of cost increases for grain production. On this basis, the impact of the input factor structures on the technical efficiency of the three food grains was further analyzed under the conditions of price increases. We found that the labor prices and production costs showed the same trends of changes. Compared to 2000, the labor prices in 2020 increased 7.33-fold and the technical efficiency values for the three grains were all close to 0.9 (0.8689, 0.8912 and 0.8451). An efficiency decomposition showed that the adjustment effect of labor prices was the main factor in cost increases, but the effects of technological progress and efficiency improvement could effectively reduce the costs of grain production (the largest average value for technological progress was for rice at 0.4569). In comparison, the effects of technological progress on cost reduction were more obvious. By analyzing the influence of input factor structures on technical efficiency, it was found that the influence of different input factor structures on technical efficiency was heterogeneous among the different grains. This paper puts forward the following policy recommendations: first, improve the level of mechanization by developing social services to reduce the dependence on labor; secondly, promote the construction of agricultural informatization, such as accelerating the research and development of intelligent agricultural machinery and promoting the transformation of traditional agriculture to intelligent agriculture; finally, promote the marketization of land element price through land trusteeship to reduce the land transfer price.

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Cost Changes and Technical Efficiency of Grain Production in China against a Background of Rising Factor Prices

Zhu

Hong

2022

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“…Thus, despite that the farmers cultivate rice on smallholdings they tend to expand their production capacities in order to decrease their production cost to the barest minimum. Therefore, it can be inferred that the farmers are operating in the stage II of the production surface given that the technical units are experiencing decreasing but positive return to scale, since economies of scale and return to scale are equivalent measures [12]; [9]; [10]; and [7]. This result supports Schultz's poor-but-effective hypothesis, which states that peasant farmers in conventional agricultural settings are efficient resource allocators given their operating conditions [19]; [9]; [10]; and [7].…”

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“…In order to alleviate poverty and achieve food security in the studied region and the country as a whole, it is critical to identify the factors that impede farmer efficiency in rice production and to quantify the degree to which these factors restrict rice farm efficiency [7], [8]. A better understanding of cost efficiency and its relationship with rice farmers will significantly assist policymakers in developing efficiency-enhancing policies and assessing the efficacy of current and previous reforms [9], [10].…”

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Cost Efficiency of USAID Markets II Beneficiary Smallholder Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s Kano State

Sadiq

Singh²,

Ahmad³

2022

Indonesian J. Agric. Res

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The present research attempted to address cost inefficiency of USAID MARKETS II smallholder farmers in Nigeria’s Kano State using farm survey data obtained from 189 farmers through a multi-stage sampling technique. The farm survey data were elicited viz. well-structured questionnaire coupled with interview schedule during the 2018 cropping season. The collected data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics- stochastic cost frontier function. The empirical evidence showed that none of the technical unit was cost efficient and this owed majorly to extension gap given its interwoven link with risk inducing factors. Besides, only 57.7%, marginally above half of the sampled technical units were fairly cost efficient i.e. close to the optimum minimum cost preferred for the production process. On the average, a technical unit wasted 14.7% of its actual incurred cost which translates to N1100 ($3.7) relative to the best practiced farmers facing the same technology and producing the same output. Therefore, since the farmers still have the room to eliminate the extra cost incurred, the study advice the program to explore further the advisory services offered to the farmers, thus addressing the extension gap that inhibited the farmers’ cost efficiency. The sustainability of the project in the near future in the absence of the advisory services especially farmer-2-farmer extension services if not explored is unlikely.

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“…About 80% of the world's population relies on rice to meet their dietary calorie needs (fao, 2020;Sadiq et al, 2021a;Sadiq et al, 2021b). In Nigeria, it has established itself as a staple food, with every household consuming a sizable amount, regardless of wealth (Esiobu, 2020;Esiobu et al, 2020;Sadiq et al, 2022).…”

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Prospects of Small-Scale Rice Processing Enterprise Among Beneficiary of Microfinance Loan in Nigeria’s Jigawa State

Sadiq

2024

ECONOMÍA

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The present study empirically determined the prospects of rice value chain of paddy processors in Jigawa State of Nigeria. In spite of the role of small-scale paddy rice processors as the main engine of growth of upstream rice value chain; growth and development of rural economy in the study area, literature is undaunted with paucity of empirical information on the prospects of rice processing value chain in the study area. The study utilized cross-sectional data elicited through a well-structured questionnaire from a total of 200 processors (133 par-boilers and 67 millers) selected through a multi-stage sampling technique. An easy cost-route approach was used for data collection during the 2022 processing period and the collected data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Based on the empirical evidence, it is established that rice processing potential has not been fully exploited in the study area. In addition, it is evident that rice processing enterprise not only being viable and profitable; it holds a good prospect in the supply value chain of rice in the study area. However, for the prospects in the supply value chain to hold well, the target actors must adopt a defensive mechanism as inferred by the space matrix.

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Cost Efficiency Status of Rice Farmers Participating in IFAD/VCD Programme in Niger State of Nigeria

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Cost Changes and Technical Efficiency of Grain Production in China against a Background of Rising Factor Prices

Cost Changes and Technical Efficiency of Grain Production in China against a Background of Rising Factor Prices

Cost Efficiency of USAID Markets II Beneficiary Smallholder Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s Kano State

Prospects of Small-Scale Rice Processing Enterprise Among Beneficiary of Microfinance Loan in Nigeria’s Jigawa State

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