Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.11648/j.ijae.20210606.12
Tamsir Mbaye, Mahani Cisse, K. Touré, Ababacar Ndiaye, Marième Fall Ba, D. Fall, Fatou Gning, D. Ngom
{"title":"Local People's Perceptions of Baobab (<i>Adansonia digitata</i> L.) Technologies in Senegal","authors":"Tamsir Mbaye, Mahani Cisse, K. Touré, Ababacar Ndiaye, Marième Fall Ba, D. Fall, Fatou Gning, D. Ngom","doi":"10.11648/j.ijae.20210606.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijae.20210606.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53319,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90621128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.11648/j.ijae.20210605.13
Rogério Edivaldo Freitas
{"title":"Agricultural Support in OECD-Reported Countries from 2000 to 2019","authors":"Rogério Edivaldo Freitas","doi":"10.11648/j.ijae.20210605.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijae.20210605.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53319,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83927970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.11648/j.ijae.20210603.15
Jaya Jha, T. Roe
{"title":"U.S Agricultural Export Competitiveness and Export Market Diversification","authors":"Jaya Jha, T. Roe","doi":"10.11648/j.ijae.20210603.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijae.20210603.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53319,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75593254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Smallholder Farmers’ Perception on the Uptake of Agricultural Innovations in Kuje Area Council, Abuja","authors":"Aluko Kehinde Janet, Sennuga Samson Olayemi, Ezinne Merianchris Emeana","doi":"10.11648/j.ijae.20210606.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijae.20210606.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53319,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics","volume":"158 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86348170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.11648/J.IJAE.20200506.16
Md. Ruhul Amin, M. Kabir, S. Hossain, G. Deb, S. Amanullah, F. Afroz
The study was executed to explore the present husbandry management practices of cattle rearing in selected areas of Bangladesh. A total 719 of samples were selected using simple random sampling technique from 14 selected upazilas of 9 districts. Data were collected through well-developed, pre-tested objective-based questionnaire and on-farm face to face direct interview. Data were analyzed using MS Excel and SPSS 20 software with descriptive statistics. From the study it was found that farmers were used half grazing (39.97%), full grazing (33.63%) and stall feeding (26.40%) cattle rearing systems. Most of the cattle sheds were found shabby type (47.89%). The average time of grazing and taking care of cattle were found 6.08 and 5.25 hours/day respectively. However, in intensive system straw and concentrate feed (8.04% and 14.94%) and in semi-intensive system grass and concentrate (5.67% and 7.47%) were provided. Most of the farmers (52.02%) used chopped roughage followed by balance ration (9.64%) of feeding technology. Moreover, most of the farmers irrespective of areas used wheat bran (65.07%) and rice police (49.92%) to feed their cattle. The scenarios of fodder cultivation of different study areas were found poor. Furthermore, the farmers had taken animal quarantine (24.19%), used cleaning farm premises (90.26%) and controlled rodents and external parasite (52.26%). Irrespective of areas regular cleaning, de-worming, vaccination, disinfect and did not take any kind of measure were 88.52%, 67.61%, 63.37%, 17.44% and 11.72% respectively. It may be concluded that there was a lack of knowledge found about scientific management practices in rearing cattle and scope for improvement of management practices of cattle for better milk and meat production in the context of Bangladesh.
{"title":"Study on Existing Husbandry Management Practices of Cattle Rearing in Selected Areas of Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Ruhul Amin, M. Kabir, S. Hossain, G. Deb, S. Amanullah, F. Afroz","doi":"10.11648/J.IJAE.20200506.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJAE.20200506.16","url":null,"abstract":"The study was executed to explore the present husbandry management practices of cattle rearing in selected areas of Bangladesh. A total 719 of samples were selected using simple random sampling technique from 14 selected upazilas of 9 districts. Data were collected through well-developed, pre-tested objective-based questionnaire and on-farm face to face direct interview. Data were analyzed using MS Excel and SPSS 20 software with descriptive statistics. From the study it was found that farmers were used half grazing (39.97%), full grazing (33.63%) and stall feeding (26.40%) cattle rearing systems. Most of the cattle sheds were found shabby type (47.89%). The average time of grazing and taking care of cattle were found 6.08 and 5.25 hours/day respectively. However, in intensive system straw and concentrate feed (8.04% and 14.94%) and in semi-intensive system grass and concentrate (5.67% and 7.47%) were provided. Most of the farmers (52.02%) used chopped roughage followed by balance ration (9.64%) of feeding technology. Moreover, most of the farmers irrespective of areas used wheat bran (65.07%) and rice police (49.92%) to feed their cattle. The scenarios of fodder cultivation of different study areas were found poor. Furthermore, the farmers had taken animal quarantine (24.19%), used cleaning farm premises (90.26%) and controlled rodents and external parasite (52.26%). Irrespective of areas regular cleaning, de-worming, vaccination, disinfect and did not take any kind of measure were 88.52%, 67.61%, 63.37%, 17.44% and 11.72% respectively. It may be concluded that there was a lack of knowledge found about scientific management practices in rearing cattle and scope for improvement of management practices of cattle for better milk and meat production in the context of Bangladesh.","PeriodicalId":53319,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics","volume":"361 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86081881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-30DOI: 10.11648/J.IJAE.20200506.12
Yekin Ahmed Ali
Demand elasticities are powerful tools to quantify welfare effects of relative price changes concomitant to shocks in economic environment of consumers. This study examined food demand elasticities to demonstrate how rural households in South West Ethiopia react to income and price changes by drawing on 267 observations of Household Income and Consumption Expenditure Survey data collected by Central Statistical Authority. It estimated Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand Systems (QUAIDS) of six groups of food items controlled for censoring and expenditure endogeneity by applying Nonlinear Seemingly Unrelated Regression (NLSUR) technique after incorporating household characteristics into the systems as intercept shifters. The descriptive statistics results showed that households allocate about 55 percent of income to food consumption of which root crops, fruits and vegetables were the dominant. The inferential statistics revealed that household characteristics such as sex, family size, age, education and location significantly influence the consumption patterns, and changes in income and prices would induce adjustment in consumption patterns that manifest by change in the quantities and types of items consumed. The results implicate the need for emphasizing crop specific price policies over holistic approach and policies that target income over policies targeting prices.
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Food affordability is of critical concern to any nation, being a key component of food security Price volatility phenomenon is linked with food affordability because escalating food prices reduces low-income earners' food access With the COVID-19 pandemic, planting activities by farmers in Nigeria have been negatively impacted in the 2019/20 planting season Hunger may therefore be looming in the coming periods because food production output will be lowered Understanding volatility in the prices of food therefore becomes very important if any meaningful solutions are to be proffered In this study, we sought to measure volatility in prices of important staple foods using the GARCH approach and then investigate the factors that drive them over the period 1970-2019 Our result revealed persistent volatility in food prices over the period under review It was revealed that insurgency, political stability in neighbouring countries, trade liberalization, GDP per capita, inflation rate, government effectiveness, crop production, crude oil price and exchange rate were prominent drivers of volatility in food commodity prices The study therefore recommends the pursuance of a peaceful nation that is capable of supporting sustainable and increased agricultural production We as well recommend mechanisms that better regulates inter-border food trading activities whereas strategies of price stabilization policies and government interventions in the pre-liberalization era should be re-visited It becomes necessary to embrace a holistic approach to economic planning given the tendencies for macroeconomic variables to drive volatility in food prices
{"title":"FOOD PRICE VOLATILITY IN NIGERIA AND ITS DRIVING FACTORS: EVIDENCE FROM GARCH ESTIMATES","authors":"T. Ajibade, O. Ayinde, T. Abdoulaye","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.307655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.307655","url":null,"abstract":"Food affordability is of critical concern to any nation, being a key component of food security Price volatility phenomenon is linked with food affordability because escalating food prices reduces low-income earners' food access With the COVID-19 pandemic, planting activities by farmers in Nigeria have been negatively impacted in the 2019/20 planting season Hunger may therefore be looming in the coming periods because food production output will be lowered Understanding volatility in the prices of food therefore becomes very important if any meaningful solutions are to be proffered In this study, we sought to measure volatility in prices of important staple foods using the GARCH approach and then investigate the factors that drive them over the period 1970-2019 Our result revealed persistent volatility in food prices over the period under review It was revealed that insurgency, political stability in neighbouring countries, trade liberalization, GDP per capita, inflation rate, government effectiveness, crop production, crude oil price and exchange rate were prominent drivers of volatility in food commodity prices The study therefore recommends the pursuance of a peaceful nation that is capable of supporting sustainable and increased agricultural production We as well recommend mechanisms that better regulates inter-border food trading activities whereas strategies of price stabilization policies and government interventions in the pre-liberalization era should be re-visited It becomes necessary to embrace a holistic approach to economic planning given the tendencies for macroeconomic variables to drive volatility in food prices","PeriodicalId":53319,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics","volume":"8 1","pages":"367-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44075666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-13DOI: 10.11648/J.IJAE.20200505.19
Daniel Hailu
Ethiopia is the second largest wheat producing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and most people rely on rain fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Wheat production has increased from 2,176,603 tons in 2005 to 4,219,257 tons in 2016 with 51.6% production volume increment. However, this production cannot meet the consumption demand and obliged to import wheat because of rapid population growth. This study intended to determine the technical efficiency of smallholder wheat farmers in Ethiopia. The main objective of study was to examine the effect of demographic, socioeconomic and institutional factors on technical efficiency of small holder wheat farmers in Ethiopia. The study used household level cross sectional data collected in 2015/16 cropping season from 1611 sample farmers selected by multistage sampling technique. A stochastic production frontier and two-limit Tobit regression models were used to estimate level of technical efficiency and identify factors affecting technical efficiency respectively. The study indicated that the average technical efficiency level of wheat producing farmers was 62% implying that there was technical efficiency variation among smallholder farmers in the study area. The result implied that there is an opportunity for wheat producers to increase output at existing levels of inputs with present technologies. By shifting the average farmer to the production frontier, the average yield would increase by 0.5 tons per hectare. The two-limit Tobit regression model results showed that experience of growing wheat, family size, own farm labor, livestock size, extension contact and training had positive and significant effect on technical efficiency. However, distant wheat plot have a negative and significance effect on technical efficiency level of the farmers. This suggests attention to productivity gains arising from efficient use of existing technologies is necessary. Therefore, the study suggested, policies and strategies should be directed towards increasing productivity through improving efficiency of the production process.
{"title":"Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Wheat Production in Ethiopia","authors":"Daniel Hailu","doi":"10.11648/J.IJAE.20200505.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJAE.20200505.19","url":null,"abstract":"Ethiopia is the second largest wheat producing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and most people rely on rain fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Wheat production has increased from 2,176,603 tons in 2005 to 4,219,257 tons in 2016 with 51.6% production volume increment. However, this production cannot meet the consumption demand and obliged to import wheat because of rapid population growth. This study intended to determine the technical efficiency of smallholder wheat farmers in Ethiopia. The main objective of study was to examine the effect of demographic, socioeconomic and institutional factors on technical efficiency of small holder wheat farmers in Ethiopia. The study used household level cross sectional data collected in 2015/16 cropping season from 1611 sample farmers selected by multistage sampling technique. A stochastic production frontier and two-limit Tobit regression models were used to estimate level of technical efficiency and identify factors affecting technical efficiency respectively. The study indicated that the average technical efficiency level of wheat producing farmers was 62% implying that there was technical efficiency variation among smallholder farmers in the study area. The result implied that there is an opportunity for wheat producers to increase output at existing levels of inputs with present technologies. By shifting the average farmer to the production frontier, the average yield would increase by 0.5 tons per hectare. The two-limit Tobit regression model results showed that experience of growing wheat, family size, own farm labor, livestock size, extension contact and training had positive and significant effect on technical efficiency. However, distant wheat plot have a negative and significance effect on technical efficiency level of the farmers. This suggests attention to productivity gains arising from efficient use of existing technologies is necessary. Therefore, the study suggested, policies and strategies should be directed towards increasing productivity through improving efficiency of the production process.","PeriodicalId":53319,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73036272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.11648/j.ijae.20200504.14
Susie Teshome, B. Tegegne
Adoption and wider diffusion of improved teff varieties is playing vital role in reversing the present situation of food insecurity in many parts of Ethiopia. However, the uses of improved teff varieties are constrained by various factors. Hence, in this study, an attempt was made to examine factors affecting adoption and intensity of use of improved teff varieties. A multi-stage random sampling technique was employed to select 150 sample households from Kobo district. Double-hurdle model was used to identify factors influencing households’ adoption decision and intensity of use of improved teff varieties. The result of double-hurdle model shows that educational level of household head, participation on crop production demonstration, distance from the nearest market, frequency of extension contact, off/non-farm income, proportion of cultivated land allocated for teff, livestock holding, improved teff seed availability, and perception on better yielding capacity of the new varieties over local varieties were found to be significantly influencing households adoption decision, whereas, sex, age, family labor, membership to an organization, off/non-farm income, frequency of extension contact and land allocated for teff were found to be significantly influencing the intensity of use of improved teff varieties. Therefore, the result implies that strengthening the existing extension services, providing good transport facilities for farmers through infrastructural development, improving access to improved seeds, improving farmers’ level of education, strengthening farmer’s organization, encouraging the use of labour saving technologies, improving crop-livestock production system and provision of demonstrations of new technologies are areas that need policy attentions to enhance adoption and intensity of use of improved teff varieties. Further, high yielding teff varieties need to be given special priority in teff variety scaling out programs.
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The importance of cassava in the food system of Ghanaians cannot be underestimated. Research and development systems have released 25 new cassava varieties. The adoptions of these varieties have been low. The study explores factors that induce farmers to use improved cassava varieties in Ghana. The study used data from 450 cassava farmers and employed multinomial logistic model. The results revealed that apart from the farm and farmer characteristics such as farm size, distance, age and gender, perception of cassava characteristics had strong influence on the use of improved cassava varieties. Perception of disease resistance, perception of longevity in-soil and high yielding had effect on adoption of improved cassava varieties. Institutional factors including awareness, field demonstrations and extension visit significantly affected adoption. The importance of strengthening and resourcing research institutions and extension services to promote and create awareness about the existing improved cassava varieties is vital.
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