Agricultural Economics and Farm Management
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Item Effect of Arable Crop Production on Poverty Status of Farmers in Niger State, Nigeria(International of Research And Innovation In Applied Science (IJRIAS), 2014-01) Ogaji, A., Sallawu, H., Bako R. U., Oseghale, A. T. and Adedokun, M.The study examined the effect of arable crop production on the poverty status of farmers in Bida local government, Niger State. Multistage sampling was employed to sample 180 respondents, Data were collected using structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics, farm budgeting techniques, total factor productivity, Foster, Greer and Thorbecke and Logit Regression Model. The results indicate farmers mean age of 37 years with 69.5% having formal education, with a net income of N211,10. Seed (.0908), farm size (.0465), level of education (.0746) and income (0.5678) had direct influence on the productivity of the farmers. Based on the poverty line (₦ 4741.79), 65% of the farmer were found to be poor. Extension contact (-.8419), access to credit (-1.1989) and income (-.034) had inverse relationship with the poverty status of arable farmers. It was recommended that the farmers should form farmer cooperatives to take advantage of economics of scale for purchase of inputs.Item Analysis of farm level technical efficiency in maize production in Kogi State, Nigeria: A stochastic frontier approach.(Journal of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology, 2012-08) Ogaji A., Tanko, L. and Omolehin, R.A.ABSTRACT The technical efficiency, determinants of production and the sources of inefficiency in maize production in Kogi State were investigated using the stochastic translog production function which incorporates a model for inefficiency effects. Data were generated using the multi-stage random sampling techniques. A total of 240 farm households from three agricultural zones were randomly selected. Farm size and labour inputs were the major factors associated with changes in the output of maize-based production in the study area. The technical efficiency of the farmers ranges from 40.2% - 96.4 % with mean efficiency of 83.9 %. Age of the farmer, level of education, farming experience, household size, credit status and membership of co-operative societies were the factors that significantly accounted for the observed variation in efficiencies among farmers. Expansion of farm holdings, acquisition of formal education and strengthening of the existing extension services were recommended.Item Effect of credit access on land productivity of rice farmers in Niger State, Nigeria.(Journal of Agripreneurship and Sustainable Development, 2019-07) Ibrahim, F.D., Oseghale, A.I. and Ogaji, A.The study examined the effect of credit access on land productivity of rice farmers in Niger State, Nigeria. Cross sectional survey was used to collect data from 175 rice farmers selected through a systematic sampling procedure. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, and linear regression. The results showed that the mean output/ha, farm size and age were 3275 kg/ha, 1.75 ha and 45 years, respectively. The amount of credit obtained was about N16, 718. The regression analysis revealed that 60% of the variation in the yield was as a result of the variables included in the model. Also, Seed (p< 0.01), fertilizer (p< 0.05) and pesticides (p< 0.10) had significant and positive effect on land productivity while credit, extension contact and education had negative effect on land productivity. The study concluded that seeds, fertilizers and pesticides were the main factors that could increase land productivity in the study area and thus recommends timely supply of these inputs.Item Analysis of income diversification among fish farmers in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State(Journal of Agricultural Research and Development, 2018) Ogaji, A., Adewumi, A., Ibrahim, M. and Danlami, C.D.The study examined income diversification among fish farmers in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria. Primary data were obtained from 120 respondents selected through a multistage sampling technique. Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Simpson index of diversity, Gini coefficient and Tobit regression model. Result showed that an average fish farmer in the area was 45 years hold and had household size of 8 persons. 86.7% of the respondents were males, 95.0% were married and 99.2% had one form of formal education or the other. The SID result obtained revealed that the fish farmers were highly diversified with diversification index of 0.8055 and that income distribution among them is relatively even with estimated Gini coefficient of 0.1955. The tobit regression result shows that the respondents’ gender at p< 0.05, age at p< 0.05, educational level at p< 0.01, marital status at p< 0.10, household size at p< 0.01, income from primary occupation at p< 0.10 and access to extension services factors at p< 0.10 were the significant determinants of income diversification among the fish farmers in Shiroro LGA of Niger State. It was recommended that income diversification through fish production in the study area can be encouraged by involving females and youth’s participation in fish production, and that further research work in the area among the fish farmers should focus on their poverty and food security status.Item ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN TOMATOES PRODUCTION IN ZARIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE(2013) Ogaji, A., Odine, A. I., Adebayo, C. O., & Adewara, I. T.The study analyzed technical efficiency and its determinants in tomatoes production in Zaria, Kaduna state. The study was based on primary data collected from 120 tomato farmers by the use of multistage sampling techniques. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and the use of stochastic production frontier. The results indicate that most (70%) of the farmers were men between the ages of 31 and 50. It also showed that increase in farm size, fertilizer and seeds will lead to a considerable increase in tomato production. Furthermore, the mean technical efficiency was 0.6 and this was influenced by age, farm experience, contact with extension agents and access to credit. The study concludes that farmers can further increase their output and therefore recommends that credits should be made available to farmers and also extension agents should be encouraged to visit the farmers more often as this translates into increased efficiency.Item Marketing of agrochemicals in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria(International Journal of Marketing and Technology, 2013) Ogaji, A., Odine, A. I., Adeniji, O. B., & Ibrahim, F. D.The study examined the marketing of agrochemicals in Benue state. Primary data was collected from 60 respondents through the use of systematic sampling technique with the aid of questionnaires/and interview schedules. Data were analyzed by the use of descriptive statistics and marketing margin analysis. The result indicated that the agrochemical market is dominated by males (78.3%) and they were all involved in the sales of herbicides among others. The marketing margin for herbicide, pesticide and insecticide per litre was 55.91, 40 and 39.79 respectively. The result also revealed that the marketers were inefficient as the marketing efficiency of the herbicide, pesticide and insecticide was 35%, 29% and 24% respectively. The study therefore concludes that agrochemical marketers in the study area are inefficient and thus recommends that agrochemical marketers should put in more effort since there is still room to increase their efficiency.Item Profitability of wetland farming. A case study of Eriti wetland in Ogun State, Nigeria(International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2015) Odine, A. I., Ogaji, A., Ibrahim, F. D., Ojo, A. O., & Jibrin, S.This study examined the profitability of farming around Eriti wetland in Ogun State. The study was based on primary data collected by personal administration of questionnaires/interviews schedule to 80 wetland farmers selected using systematic sampling. The study respondents were asked questions that had to do with their socio-economic status such as age, educational background, gender farm size as well as production costs and returns. Data collected was analyzed through the use of descriptive statistics, budgetary techniques as well as linear programming. The results revealed that an average farmer in Eriti wetland area was a married male (60.3%) aged between 31 and 40 years (34.2%) with primary education (55.9%). The budgetary results showed that the net wetland income was N239, 694with returns on investment of N3. 63. Furthermore, the shadow price of land, labour and intermediate materials was N109, 411/ha, N164 andN6. 42 respectively implying that each additional unit of this factors put into cultivation will increase farm profit by the associated amount. The study thus concludes that farming around Eriti wetland is profitable and thus recommends that farmers should be encouraged to cultivate fruity vegetable, rice and cassava in order to maximize their profit.Item PROFIT EFFICIENCY OF FISH FARMERS IN KWARA STATE NIGERIA(Taraba Journal of Agricultural Research, 2017) Ogaji, A., Oseghale, A.I., Olarewaju, T.O. and Oyeyemi, E.DThe study examined profit efficiency among fish farmers in Kwara state, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the research were to examine the socio-economic characteristics of the fish farmers in the study area, estimate the cost and returns associated with fish farming, determine the profit efficiency of fish production in the study area, analyze the determinants of profit efficiency in fish production and to examine the constraints associated with fish production. Data were collected from randomly selected 60 farmers using questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, farm budgeting technique and stochastic profit function. The results showed that the mean age, farming experience and household size of the fish farmers were 45 years, 18 years and 8 respectively. The gross margin and net farm income were ₦838,778.34 and ₦769,945.32 respectively. Stochastic profit frontier analysis revealed foundation stock cost, pond size and capital input had a significant and positive influence on fish output. Age and membership of cooperative had positive effect on the profit inefficiency Constraints faced by the farmers in the study area included lack of electricity, polluted water and lack of government support. It was concluded that fish production was a profitable venture in the study area. The study therefore recommended that farmers should form cooperative societies so as to pull their resources together and improve their finances to enhance their production. Also, policies made by the government to encourage local production of poultry and fish should be implemented by all the agencies concerned.Item MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY OF SMALL SCALE YAM AND CASSAVA FARMERS IN KOGI STATE, NIGERIA: DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS AS A COMPLEMENT(Taraba Journal of Agricultural Research, 2016) Ojo, M.A., A.O. Ojo, A.I. Odine, and A. OgajiThe study examined marginal productivity analysis of small scale of yam and cassava farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria. Data used for the study were obtained from primary source using a multi-stage sampling technique with structured questionnaires administered to 150 randomly selected yam and cassava farmers from three Local Government Areas of the State. Descriptive statistics, data envelopment analysis and Cobb- Douglas production function were used to analyze the data. The DEA result on the overall technical efficiency of the farmers showed that 40% of the sampled yam and cassava farmers in the study area were operating at frontier and optimum level of production with mean technical efficiency of 1.00. This implies that 60% of the yam and cassava farmers in the study area can still improve on their level of efficiency through better utilization of available resources, given the current state of technology. The results of the Cobb-Douglas analysis of factors affecting the output of yam and cassava farmers showed that labour, planting materials, fertilizer and capital inputs positively and significantly affected the output of the yam and cassava farmers in the study area. The study further revealed that yam and cassava farms in the study area operated under increasing returns to scale. This result of marginal productivity analysis further showed that relatively efficient farms were more marginally productive in resource utilization. It is therefore recommended that yam and cassava farmers in the study area should form cooperative societies so as to enable them have access to productive inputs that will enable them expand. Also, since using a single equation model for production function produces a bias parameter estimates as confirmed from the study, farms should therefore be decomposed into efficient and inefficient ones before production function estimation is done.Item Long and short-run prize integration analysis of rice marketing in Kwara State, Nigeria(Agricultural Science Research Journal, 2015) Ojo, A.O., M.A. Ojo, A. Ogaji, A. Oseghale and R. KutigiThis study examined the long and short-run analysis of rice marketing in Kwara State, Nigeria. Time series data on the retail prices of rice were collected for a period of 60 months (2006-2010) to test for the long linear equilibrium relationship as well as the speed of price transmission between selected markets in the State. The test procedures involved the Augumented Dickey Fuller test to detect the presence of unit root in the series; Johansen co-integration test for the long run equilibrium relationship among the variables; vector error correction model test (VECM) to capture short-run and long-run changes in the price movements; and Granger casualty test to reflect the direction of influence between prices. The results revealed that stationarity in the price series was eliminated after the first differencing and that there was a stable long-run equilibrium relationship among the markets. The vector error correction estimates shows that most of the markets were not well integrated in the short –run, and finally, the causality test revealed that no single market dominated the price formation either in the rural or urban markets in the study area.