Role of Access to Credit in Rice Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya

Njagi, Timothy; Mano, Yukichi; Otsuka, Keijiro

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“…To economists, agricultural technology adoption decisions should be the outcome of individuals' optimization of expected utility or profit, where returns are a function of land allocation, the production technology, the costs of inputs, prices of outputs, and the markets in which those prices are realized and obtainable (Feder, Just, and Zilberman 1985). Recent literature that has focused on physical output, or imputed a shadow value to unmarketed physical output, implicitly assumes that output can either be stored or sold at a profitable price (Evenson and Gollin 2003;Smale and Olwande 2014;Asfaw, Di Battista, and Lipper 2016;Emerick et al 2016;Jutzi and Rich 2016;Njeru, Mano, and Otsuka 2016;Verkaart et al 2017). If outputs are instead difficult to sell or store, this could explain why the adoption of so many high-yielding varieties remains low.…”

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Money Matters: The Role of Yields and Profits in Agricultural Technology Adoption

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Verkaart

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American J Agri Economics

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Despite the growing attention to technology adoption in the economics literature, knowledge gaps remain regarding why some valuable technologies are rapidly adopted, while others are not. This paper contributes to our understanding of agricultural technology adoption by showing that a focus on yield gains may, in some contexts, be misguided. We study a technology in Ethiopia that has no impact on yields, but that has nonetheless been widely adopted. Using three waves of panel data, we estimate a correlated random coefficient model and calculate the returns to improved chickpea in terms of yields, costs, and profits. We find that farmers’ comparative advantage does not play a significant role in their adoption decisions and hypothesize that this is due to the overall high economic returns to adoption, despite the limited yield impacts of the technology. Our results suggest economic measures of returns may be more relevant than increases in yields in explaining technology adoption decisions.

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Money Matters: The Role of Yields and Profits in Agricultural Technology Adoption

Michler

Tjernström

Verkaart

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American J Agri Economics

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“…Outcome variable is represented by (A) the application of inputs, consisting of (A1) the imputed cost of family labor (000FCFA/ha); (A2) the cost of hired labor (000FCFA/ha); (A3) the cost of machinery (000FCFA/ha); (A4) the application of chemical fertilizer (kg/ha); (B) the imputed cost of family labor and the cost of hired labor allocated to different agricultural activities (000FCFA/ha), consisting of (B1) land preparation; (B2) crop establishment; (B3) crop care; and (B4) harvesting; and (C) rice farming performance, consisting of (C1) rice yield (t/ha); (C2) rice income per hectare (000FCFA/ha); (C3) rice profit per hectare (000FCFA/ha); (C4) total rice income of 2.4 tons/ha in SSA and is comparable to the average yield in irrigated areas in SSA in the recent period and tropical Asia in the late 1980s (Njeru et al, 2016).…”

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Mechanization in land preparation and agricultural intensification: The case of rice farming in the Cote d'Ivoire

Mano

Takahashi

Otsuka

2020

Agricultural Economics

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It is critically important to intensify farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa by disseminating improved agronomic practices and increasing the application of modern inputs. One of the region's problems is that proper land preparation is difficult due to the scarcity of draft animals and the underdevelopment of the tractor rental market. Our analysis of rice production in the Cote d'Ivoire reveals that farmers who use tractors in land preparation more intensively apply fertilizer and use more labor to carefully implement proper agronomic practices, thereby raising productivity. Thus, the diffusion of tractors appears to be key to the intensification of rice farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa.

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“…12). Njeru et al (2016) point out, based on case-study evidence, that as far as irrigated areas are concerned, there is no significant difference in the relationship between fertilizer application and yield per hectare between tropical Asia and SSA. This suggests that the properties of yield functions are similar between tropical Asia and SSA.…”

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Technology Transfer and Agricultural Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa

Otsuka

2019

Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa

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As in the case of any other sectors of the economy, the engine of agricultural growth in developing countries is the transfer of technology. This chapter pays a special attention to the role of transfer of intensive rice production systems from Japan to the former colonies of Taiwan and Kore before World War II, to tropical Asia in the 1960s to 1980s, and further to sub-Sharan Africa at present. What is found is that compared with other cereal crops lowland rice production technology is highly transferable from one major region to another. Another important point is that improved rice production system is not only intensive in the use of improved seeds and chemical fertilizer but also in “management,” including bunding, leveling, and straight-row transplanting. Therefore, in order to realize rice Green Revolution in Africa, it is critical to invest in training of rice farmers and extension workers. This chapter also explains how various other chapters dealing with agricultural issues in this volume are related with the issue of productivity growth of agriculture discussed in this chapter.

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Role of Access to Credit in Rice Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya

Abstract: This study investigates the possibility of boosting rice production in Sub-Saharan Africa with a special focus on the role of access to credit in rice farming in the largescale Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya. Using household level survey data, we find

Cited by 42 publications

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Money Matters: The Role of Yields and Profits in Agricultural Technology Adoption

Money Matters: The Role of Yields and Profits in Agricultural Technology Adoption

Mechanization in land preparation and agricultural intensification: The case of rice farming in the Cote d'Ivoire

Technology Transfer and Agricultural Development: A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa

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