Technical efficiency and its determinants in smallholder rice production in northern Ghana

Anang, Benjamin Tetteh; Bäckman, Stefan; Sipiläinen, Timo

doi:10.1353/jda.2016.0072

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“…The domestic rice industry is estimated to provide employment for 10 per cent of Ghanaian households (Anang, ). In addition, Angelucci et al () reported that northern Ghana, comprising of the Upper West, East and Northern Regions jointly produced 67.8 per cent of the rice produced in Ghana in 2010.…”

Section: Rice Production In Ghanamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the implementation of these national development plans has not been successful in raising the productivity of rice farming. Despite the favourable climatic conditions for rice production in Ghana, existing empirical studies have demonstrated that rice producers in Ghana have been able to achieve only 2.5 per cent of the potential yield of 6.5mt/ha (Donkor et al ., ; Anang, ). This low productivity of rice farming is attributed to low efficiency in the production process.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Rice is widely consumed by many people in the world. As a result governments, policymakers, and non‐governmental agencies identified rice as one of the commodities for which agricultural productivity should increase (Anang, ). In most African countries policies were designed at national level for the development of the rice industry.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Efficiency of Rice Farming in Ghana: Policy Implications for Rice Sector Development

Donkor¹,

Matthews²,

Ogundeji³

2018

African Development Review

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There is high demand for food commodities due to population growth in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the agricultural productivity remains low making it difficult to meet this increased food demand. Therefore a need arose to improve agricultural productivity, including the productivity of the rice industry in Ghana. This study analysed the factors influencing the efficiency of Ghana's rice industry using the stochastic metafrontier model. A total of 470 smallholder rice producers from two districts in Upper East region were selected for the study. The empirical results reveal that the rice producers are technically inefficient and operating below the metafrontier. The results also indicate that the factors that influence farmers' technical efficiency level are different between the two districts. Results also indicate that technology adoption or use of improved production practices increase the technical efficiency of rice farmers. Based on the results it is recommended that policy-makers and researchers develop district specific recommendations, and determine how the adoption of improved technology can be increased.

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Section: Rice Production In Ghanamentioning

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Efficiency of Rice Farming in Ghana: Policy Implications for Rice Sector Development

Donkor¹,

Matthews²,

Ogundeji³

2018

African Development Review

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“…Several empirical studies on the efficiency of agricultural production in Ghana [13][14][15][16][17][18], indicate the importance researchers and policy makers have attached to efficiency improvement as a means for productivity enhancement. However, none of these studies empirically gauged the potential technology gaps that different production environments could impose on rice cultivation in the country.…”

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Evaluating the Environmental-Technology Gaps of Rice Farms in Distinct Agro-Ecological Zones of Ghana

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Rice (Oryza sativa) is an important food staple and a cash crop, which is cultivated in all the ten regions of Ghana under varying agro-ecological conditions. These conditions also reflect the production technologies used and the total farm output. In an attempt to determine the potential sources of production shortfalls on rice farms in Ghana, this paper estimates the production efficiency and the environmental-technology gaps of rice-producing households in the forest-savannah transition and guinea savannah agro-ecological zones of Ghana. The paper adopts the stochastic metafrontier framework, which permits technology-related inefficiency effects to be extricated from managerial inefficiency effects for appropriate policy formulation. In contrast to past studies, the empirical findings reveal that farms in the two agro-ecological zones adopt heterogeneous production technologies due to differences in their production environments. This is indicated by the estimated mean environmental-technology gap ratios of 0.95 and 0.50, and mean metafrontier technical efficiencies of 0.56 and 0.42 for farms in the forest-savannah transition and guinea savannah zones, respectively. These findings call for agricultural policy formulation in Ghana to be targeted at the prevailing environmental conditions of the various agro-ecological zones rather than being all-inclusive in addressing the extant inefficiencies in the rice production systems of Ghana.

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“…Ghana's agricultural policy identifies rice as an important food crop that has the potential to ensure food security (Anang, Bäckman, & Sipiläinen, 2016). According to Chamberlin (2007), Ghana's rice sector is dominated by smallholders and more than 70 percent of them have farm holdings not greater than three (3) hectares.…”

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Gender Effect on Adoption of Selected Improved Rice Technologies in Ghana

Addison¹,

Ohene-Yankyera²,

Aidoo³

2018

JAS

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The study sought to test the hypothesis that gender influences adoption of innovations in the rice sector of Ghana. There is an existence of gender gap in adoption of farm innovations in Ghana. After desk review, it was found that the existing literature has not provided a clear linkage between gender and adoption of agricultural technologies. Thus, the objective of this study was to determine how the interaction between gender and other socio-economic factors influence the incidence of adoption of improved rice variety and fertilizer. Drawing on 917 face-to-face interviews with rice producers, the results show that child care and limited access to land inhibit female incidence of adoption. It is recommended that the innovation system should take cognizance of female reproductive role and develop, as much as possible, technology options that rely less on intensive use of labour. Furthermore, government should facilitate the development of land markets to improve female access to land, especially in northern Ghana where cultural norms restrict women's access to land.

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Technical efficiency and its determinants in smallholder rice production in northern Ghana

Cited by 29 publications

References 20 publications

Efficiency of Rice Farming in Ghana: Policy Implications for Rice Sector Development

Efficiency of Rice Farming in Ghana: Policy Implications for Rice Sector Development

Evaluating the Environmental-Technology Gaps of Rice Farms in Distinct Agro-Ecological Zones of Ghana

Gender Effect on Adoption of Selected Improved Rice Technologies in Ghana

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