Estimating financing gaps in rice production in Southwestern Nigeria

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dc.creatorOjo, T. O.
dc.creatorOgundeji, A. A.
dc.creatorBabu, Suresh Chandra
dc.creatorAlimi, T.
dc.date2020-08-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:10:54Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:10:54Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:02:42Z
dc.descriptionThis study analysed the financing gaps relative to production frontier of rice farmers in Southwestern Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to collect cross-sectional data from 360 rice farmers selected from three states in the region. A Cobb–Douglas stochastic frontier and an adapted form of Harrod–Domar (HD) growth model was employed to determine the financing gap required the farmers to be at the frontier level. The empirical results of the frontier model show that quantity of labour, quantity of rice as planting material and herbicides were statistically significant in explaining the variations in the efficiency of rice production in Nigeria. However, age, gender, farming experience, household size, access to credit, access to information, adoption of improved variety and location of rice farmers as sources of technical inefficiencies. As revealed by the result of the HD growth model, the average amount of credit per season that farmers had access to was, 38,630.56 naira (₦) while the mean financing in the form of credit required to produce at the frontier level was ₦193,626.50, showing a financing shortfall of about 80%. As unravelled by the result of the study, it can thus be concluded that technical efficiency of rice farmers can be improved by ameliorating access to timely credit and agricultural information for improving rice productivity. These findings suggest that filling the financing gap of smallholder rice farmers will improve rice productivity in Nigeria. The study, therefore, recommends that strengthening the existing technology by building farmers’ capacity on farm management practices would be the surest means of improving rice productivity growth in Nigeria. This would not only contribute to the intensification of rice production in Nigeria to meet its increasing rice demand, but also improve rice farmers’ productivity and their households’ incomes.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142705
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/92962
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133811
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133780
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceOjo, T. O.; Ogundeji, A. A.; Babu, Suresh Chandra; and Alimi, T. 2020. Estimating financing gaps in rice production in Southwestern Nigeria. Journal of Economic Structures 9: 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40008-020-0190-y
dc.subjectagricultural banks
dc.subjectfood production
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjectrice
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectfinancing
dc.titleEstimating financing gaps in rice production in Southwestern Nigeria
dc.typeJournal Article

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