Infrastructural Development, Sustainable Agricultural Output and Employment in ECOWAS Countries

Edeme, Richardson Kojo; Nkalu, Nelson C.; Idenyi, Janefrancis; Arazu, None Winnie O.

doi:10.1016/j.sftr.2020.100010

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“…In this context, the roles of the awareness and the adoption of technological innovation by farmers cannot be ignored [3]. The awareness and adoption of agricultural technologies by farmers can support agriculture productivity, and can foster employment creation, which contribute to reducing poverty by raising productivity and the income of farmers, which ultimately improves their access to food [4,5].…”

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Determinants of Farmers’ Awareness and Adoption of Extension Recommended Wheat Varieties in the Rainfed Areas of Pakistan

2022

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Scientific evidence suggests that there is room for eradicating poverty and hunger by increasing food production through the adoption of modern agricultural practices by farmers. This study aimed, first, to explore the relationship between the farmers’ awareness and adoption of improved wheat varieties. Second, it aimed to find the key factors that govern the farmers’ awareness and adoption of extension-recommended innovations in the rainfed cropping system of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Data were collected from 395 respondents. A binary logit model was used to analyze the effect of the farmers’ socioeconomic and farm-specific characteristics on their awareness and adoption of the extension-suggested wheat varieties. Moreover, qualitative data from 40 key informants were collected for in-depth analysis. The results show a strong association between the farmers’ awareness of a technology (improved wheat varieties) and its adoption. The results of the logit model show that their extension contacts, income from agriculture, and access to credit positively affected the farmers’ awareness, whereas their education and household sizes negatively affected their awareness. Moreover, the factors that positively influenced the farmers’ decision to adopt the technology included the extension contact, the confidence in the extension, the risk-bearing attitude, and the credit access, whereas the household size and education negatively affected it. The results of the key informant interviews reveal that the high incidence of poverty, the low soil fertility, the farmers’ inability to make effective decisions, the lack of accurate weather predictability in the rainfed farming system, the lack of government interest, and the asymmetric information in the inputs markets contributed to the farmers’ low levels of awareness and to their poor adoption of improved agricultural technologies. These results indicate that any intervention aimed at the awareness and adoption by farmers of improved technologies, such as new wheat varieties, should recognize the heterogeneity in the farmers’ socioeconomic and farm-specific characteristics.

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Determinants of Farmers’ Awareness and Adoption of Extension Recommended Wheat Varieties in the Rainfed Areas of Pakistan

2022

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“…The agricultural commodity supply chain is an economic structure in which the gains and costs are distributed among its participants, and if there is incompetence on the part of the food production, this may result in the value of the distributed product declining on both quality and quantity (Perdana, 2012). Edeme et al (2020) hypothesized that transport infrastructure has a negative and insignificant impact on agricultural output. Gollin and Rogerson (2014) hypothesized that low productivity in logistics leads to higher labour allocation in agriculture.…”

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“…Nwaigwe et al (2019) concluded that even with a growing marketing margin, a commodity can still remain inefficient in production. According to Edeme et al (2020), transportation infrastructure has a negative and insignificant effect on agricultural production. The several authors mentioned in Abassian et al (2010) study concluded that with the assumption of variable input proportions, a negative relationship between the number of outputs and marketing margin is exhibited.…”

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The Impact of Logistics on Marketing Margin in the Philippine Agricultural Sector

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Chong

Cordova

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JEFAS

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The logistics industry is a fundamental aspect of fulfilling the supply chain in agriculture. Agricultural farmers in the Philippines often use the services of middlemen to transact on their behalf since these intermediaries possess better information, and engaging in logistics affects the marketing margin in the process. Frequently, logistics costs cause marketing margin to increase, leading to high farm-retail prices of agricultural goods. This paper examines if the existence of middlemen improves farmers' wages even with the additional logistics costs incurred. The variables' secondary data were all gathered from the Philippine Statistics Authority, and its annual frequency spanned the period of 1995 to 2019. Using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression analysis procedure and diagnostic tests prove that logistics cost negatively affects marketing margin while farmers' wages have a positive relationship. The findings of this study address the presence of a longer supply chain, asymmetric information, technology, storage and facilities, and added logistics costs in agricultural transactions. Although middlemen have greater market power than the farmers, these mediators are still affected by the changes in the logistics costs since it is unavoidable for them to reduce the price due to the need to competitively sell the commodities.

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“…In line with this, Handaka [18] reported that availability of infrastructure, technology and political will of the government as some of the factors that contributed to food security in Indonesia. It has been established that agriculture can work with other sectors of the economy to achieve faster development, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability [19,20,21]. Furthermore, with basic infrastructure in place agricultural mechanization is much more easily attainable.…”

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Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in Nigeria in Context of COVID-19

Fadele

Amusan

Ariyo

et al. 2020

JSRR

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Post-harvest losses and food shortage has remained endemic to most Sub-Saharan African communities. The reality of COVID-19 in these countries has unfurled the weakness of agricultural sector in containing long lasting effect of such natural disaster. In most developed countries, the impact of COVID-19 is minimal on the agricultural sector because of their functional robust food supply chain structure unlike most developing countries. The effort of most African countries in this sector is yet to come to fruition; this will not happen without sustainable agricultural mechanization. This would further enhance food supply chain mechanism in the agricultural sector. In this paper, the impact of COVID-19 on food supply in Nigeria was discussed, as well as the proffered approaches in combating similar future disaster.

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Infrastructural Development, Sustainable Agricultural Output and Employment in ECOWAS Countries

Cited by 34 publications

References 9 publications

Determinants of Farmers’ Awareness and Adoption of Extension Recommended Wheat Varieties in the Rainfed Areas of Pakistan

Determinants of Farmers’ Awareness and Adoption of Extension Recommended Wheat Varieties in the Rainfed Areas of Pakistan

The Impact of Logistics on Marketing Margin in the Philippine Agricultural Sector

Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in Nigeria in Context of COVID-19

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