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Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region

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Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region

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A cross-sectional data collected through structured questionnaire coupled with an interview schedule from 360 rice farmers selected via a multi-stage sampling technique was used to determine the labour efficiency of rice farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central region. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the 2020 cropping season data. The empirical evidences showed a farming population that is gender biased due to gender stereotype, thus affected women’s access to and control over productive resources. Besides, economic-productive people that explored pecuniary advantages to achieve economies of scale engaged in cultivation of thinly uneconomic holding. The poor economic status of the farm families made most of the farmers to rely on family labour for farm operations, thus keeping most of their children and young ones out of school. Furthermore, most of the farmers were fairly efficient in the use of labour with little technical support required to enable them to achieve optimum labour efficiency level (frontier point). However, the empirical evidences showed competition for labour demand between farm and off-farm activities, and, conservative and complacency attitudes due to longevity in the enterprise to be the factors that affected labour efficiency. Therefore, the study calls for gender mainstreaming in the agricultural budget to overcome women’s challenge on productive resources; incentivized the enterprise viz. credit provision; and, adoption of a bottom-to-top approach in research and practical demonstration approach in the transfer of innovative rice technologies.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Tarım Politikaları

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

28 Eylül 2023

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Eylül 2023

Gönderilme Tarihi

15 Temmuz 2022

Kabul Tarihi

27 Eylül 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2023 Cilt: 3 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Sadıq, S., Sıngh, I. P., & Ahmad, M. M. (2023). Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region. Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Tarım ve Doğa Dergisi, 3(2), 50-61. https://doi.org/10.59359/maujan.1144005
AMA
1.Sadıq S, Sıngh IP, Ahmad MM. Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region. MAÜ Tarım Doğa Derg. 2023;3(2):50-61. doi:10.59359/maujan.1144005
Chicago
Sadıq, Sanusi, Invinder Paul Sıngh, ve Muhd. Makarfi Ahmad. 2023. “Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region”. Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Tarım ve Doğa Dergisi 3 (2): 50-61. https://doi.org/10.59359/maujan.1144005.
EndNote
Sadıq S, Sıngh IP, Ahmad MM (01 Eylül 2023) Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region. Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Tarım ve Doğa Dergisi 3 2 50–61.
IEEE
[1]S. Sadıq, I. P. Sıngh, ve M. M. Ahmad, “Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region”, MAÜ Tarım Doğa Derg, c. 3, sy 2, ss. 50–61, Eyl. 2023, doi: 10.59359/maujan.1144005.
ISNAD
Sadıq, Sanusi - Sıngh, Invinder Paul - Ahmad, Muhd. Makarfi. “Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region”. Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Tarım ve Doğa Dergisi 3/2 (01 Eylül 2023): 50-61. https://doi.org/10.59359/maujan.1144005.
JAMA
1.Sadıq S, Sıngh IP, Ahmad MM. Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region. MAÜ Tarım Doğa Derg. 2023;3:50–61.
MLA
Sadıq, Sanusi, vd. “Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region”. Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi Tarım ve Doğa Dergisi, c. 3, sy 2, Eylül 2023, ss. 50-61, doi:10.59359/maujan.1144005.
Vancouver
1.Sanusi Sadıq, Invinder Paul Sıngh, Muhd. Makarfi Ahmad. Labour-Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Nigeria’s North-Central Region. MAÜ Tarım Doğa Derg. 01 Eylül 2023;3(2):50-61. doi:10.59359/maujan.1144005

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