Rice yield per hectare in Nigeria compared to her neighboring countries is low, given the ecological and economic advantages. Nigeria's rice yield should be seen in line with other developing countries such as Egypt and China. Based on a recent survey carried out 2012/2013, a sample size of...
First, Nigeria’s yield per hectare is 2 metric tons while Morocco’s, Brazil, and Vietnam are 9, 8, and 6 metric tons respectively. This means Nigeria needs three times as much land – and the effort that goes with manually cultivating it – to achieve a similar yield to Vietnam. Se...
Findings of the analysis indicated that adoption of improved varieties helped raise farmers'' area harvested and yield per hectare, respectively, by 0.39 hectare and 217.9 kg/ha for NERICA and 0.51 hectare and 210.4 kg/ha for other improved varieties, thereby increasing their productivity. In ...
The increase in rice yield was relatively low,and yield per hectare remained at 7 tons. Through the recent three years of largescale demonstration,it was known that the high-yielding varieties and high-yielding cultivation methods should be promoted at the same time.In the cultivation process,it...
Using a structured research questionnaire, data were collected from 100 co-operative farmers in six project locations from March through July, 1984. The results of analysis of data reveal an overall significant increase in rice yield per hectare, whilst 5% of the farmers had improved their living...
With their assistance, a hybrid crop variety produced a harvest of 10.8 tons per hectare this year, far exceeding the yield of local rice.In May, the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center opened a research center in Madagascar to select hybrid rice varieties based on the ...
The average world farm yield for rice was 4.53 tonnes per hectare (FAO, 2014). The estimated rice straw production amounts to approximately 740.95–1111.42 million tons per year globally (Table 1). Table 1. Cultivated agricultural area and rice production in different regions of the world, and...
Although studies have been conducted on resource use efficiency in recent times in Nigeria, research focused explicitly on production factor substitution has been wanting. This book, therefore, bridges this gap in knowledge by estimating efficiency indices and elasticities of substitution of upland rice ...
In Chap. 4 , we compare the work attitudes of service providers and farmers to study the moral hazards of service providers and find that service providers' work attitude is less serious than that of farmers. In this chapter, we will study whether the negative effect of harvest outsourcing ...
However, between 2015 and 2020, rice productivity in Indonesia decreased by −0.814 per year. This equates to a decrease from 53.41 quintals per hectare in 2015 to 51.28 quintals per hectare in 2020, even though in that period, many new technologies for rice cultivation have been produced....