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...
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 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...
With current rice yields, 1 hectare of land is sufficient to feed 27 people. Due to the predicted population growth and the trend towards urbanization, this area will have to feed around 43 people by 2050. This means that the yield per hectare must be increased by at least 50%. One way...
In addition, large-scale farmland also facilitates mechanical harvesting. Yield per Hectare (Yield) It has also been shown that harvest losses are related to the variety of the crop (Chuan-udom and Chinsuwan 2010), because different varieties have different tolerance to bad conditions (Smale et ...
Rice Research and Development Center set up a research center in Madagascar, partnering with the country's agriculture ministry and local companies. The Chinese experts have successfully bred a number of hybrid rice types that suit the local climate with the highest yield of 10.8 tons per hectare...
Initially, increasing the amount of seed leads to a significant increase in output, but the additional output gained per unit of seed decreases as the quantity of seed becomes excessive. The result of the concave relationship between seed and rice yield is contrary to the findings of Azumah et...
In 2010, a team of Chinese experts came to Madagascar. 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 ...
(2015), who observed that between 2007 and 2012, the rice yield per hectare almost doubled, and the rice production increase was facilitated by yield growth rather than by area expansion. While the yield increased between 2008 and 2012, the growth rate declined between 2012 and 2018. The ...
Implementing both mechanized harvesting and threshing increases the yield per hectare by 16.6%. 4.2. Business case Above it is shown that switching from manual to mechanical practices in rice production produces considerable increases in yield. In this section we consider what the business case for ...