Author: Daniel S. UgwuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Adoption of Agricultural Technologies by Rural Women Under the Women-in-Agriculture Programme in Nigeria
Author: Daniel S. UgwuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Technology, Women, and Farming Systems
Author: Heather BaserPublisher: Technology and Social Change Program
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Women and Agricultural Technology: Experiences in international and national research
Author: Women and Agricultural Technology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women in agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Impact of Agricultural Technology Adoption on Small-holder Farmers
Author: Janet O. OlusiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Promoting Market-led Agricultural Technology Transfer and Commercialization in Nigeria
Author: Publisher: IITA
ISBN: 9789781312069
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Credit constraints and agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from Nigeria
Author: Balana, BedruPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The agricultural sector in Nigeria is characterized by low productivity that is driven by low use of modern agricultural technologies, such as improved seed, chemical fertilizer, agrochemicals, and agricultural machinery. Poor access to credit is claimed to be one of the key barriers to adoption of these technologies. This study examines the nature of credit constraints among smallholder farmers – whether smallholders are credit constrained or not and the extent to which credit constraints emanate from supply-side or demand-side factors. Using multinomial probit and seeming unrelated simultaneous equations econometric models with data from the 2018/19 Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) for Nigeria, the study investigates the factors affecting credit access and the effects of these credit constraints on adoption of four agricultural technologies – inorganic fertilizer, improved seed, agrochemicals, and mechanization. The results show that about 27 percent of survey households were found to be credit constrained – 12.8 percent due to supply-side factors and 14.2 percent due to demand-side factors. Lack of access to information and communication technology, extension services, and insurance coverage are the major demand-side factors negatively affecting smallholder’s access to credit. Registered land tiles and livestock ownership enhance credit access. Credit constraints manifests themselves differentially on the adoption of different agricultural technologies. While adoption of inorganic fertilizer and improved seed are significantly affected by credit constraints from both the supply and the demand-sides; use of agricultural machinery is affected only by demand-side factors, while use of agrochemicals is not affected from either supply or demand-side credit factors. From a policy perspective, our findings indicate that improving credit access via supply-side interventions alone may not necessarily boost use of modern agricultural technologies by smallholder farmers in Nigeria. Demand-side factors, such as access to information, extension services, and insurance cover, should equally be addressed to mitigate the credit constraints faced by smallholders and increase their adoption of modern agricultural technologies and improve their productivity.
Agricultural Input Subsidies
Author: Ephraim ChirwaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199683522
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book takes forward our understanding of agricultural input subsidies in low income countries.
Do credit constraints affect agricultural technology adoption? Evidence from Nigeria
Author: Balana, BedruPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
The agricultural sector in Nigeria is characterized by low productivity that is driven in part by low use of modern agricultural technologies. Poor access to credit is seen by many observers to be one of the key barriers to adoption of these technologies. Literature suggests that credit constraints impede individuals from investing in productivity enhancing agricultural technologies and, thus, poor farmers are unable to engage in high-return agricultural activities. Much policy discourse and research literature associates agricultural credit constraints with supply-side factors, such as farmers not having access to credit sources or high costs of borrowing, and, thus, recommend that such supply-side constraints be addressed to improve smallholders’ access to credit. However, demand-side factors, such as borrower’s risk-averse behavior, financial illiteracy, collateral requirements, or perceived high transactions costs, can also play important roles in credit-rationing for smallholder farmers.
Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers in Africa
Author: Katrine Anderson SaitoPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Operational guidelines on how to provide cost- effective agricultural extension services to women farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.