Farm efficiency analysis provides significant insights into farms’ potential to enhance agricultural productivity. This article reports on an investigation of technology adoption and technical efficiency (TE) in the Ethiopian maize sector. We estimat...
This article analyses the level of integration in pastoral markets in Kenya using high-frequency data generated through a crowdsourcing endeavour. The vector error-correction model framework was used to estimate the causal relationships between the s...
Accessing water supply services remains a serious challenge in Wakiso District in Uganda, where most households travel long distances to collect water – a process that threatens their health, productivity and economic wellbeing. Although addressing t...
This study investigates the relationships between financial inclusion, gender and household welfare. We used baseline data collected from a randomised control trial survey of maize farmers in Nigeria and computed multidimensional indices for financia...
This study investigates the driving factors that influence farmers’ decisions to adopt modern agricultural inputs (MAI) and how this affects farm household welfare in rural Rwanda. To account for heterogeneity in the MAI adoption decision and unobser...
The provision of agricultural extension services in South Africa has transitioned from state-funded systems to privatised models, raising questions about smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for such services. This study employs a binary probit mo...
Field experiments were conducted in the Ile-Ife outstation of the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training during the 2016 and 2017 cropping seasons to investigate the effect of three herbicides namely: Codal Gold 412.5 EC (Metolachlor + Prome...
The study assessed the sources and risks of raising poultry in Lagos State, Nigeria. After data cleaning, 127 of the 130 poultry farmers who were randomly selected using a semi-structured questionnaire were found to be suitable for analysis. The soci...
A major challenge for agriculture and future crop production is the deterioration in soil health and fertility. We have large areas of barren land across the globe with degraded soil which can only be made fertile by applying proper nutrition and soi...
Maize (Zea mays L.) is the staple food crop grown by most smallholder farmers in Nigeria and its productivity and production are affected by the decline in soil fertility. Research was conducted to evaluate maize growth in a Tectona grandis-based agr...
A study was aimed at characterizing and evaluating the suitability of the soils of Nkpa for maize and groundnut cultivation. A Free survey method was adopted. Transects and soil augering were used to identify two soil units (MU 1 and MU 2). Four prof...
Feed constitutes a major cost component of poultry production and this cost has been steadily increasing with a resultant effect of the high cost of poultry and its products. Improving the sustainability of the poultry diet is important to meet the g...