Abstract
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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Abstract
Nijerya'nın Kuzey-Orta bölgesindeki pirinç çiftçilerinin işgücü verimliliğini belirlemek için çok aşamalı örnekleme tekniğiyle seçilen 360 pirinç çiftçisinden görüşme programıyla birleştirilmiş yapılandırılmış anket yoluyla toplanan kesitsel bir veri kullanıldı. 2020 mahsul sezonu verilerini analiz etmek için hem tanımlayıcı hem de çıkarımsal istatistikler kullanıldı. Ampirik kanıtlar, toplumsal cinsiyet klişesi nedeniyle cinsiyet önyargısı olan bir çiftçi popülasyonunun, kadınların üretken kaynaklara erişimini ve bu kaynaklar üzerindeki kontrolünü etkilediğini gösterdi. Ayrıca, ölçek ekonomileri elde etmek için maddi avantajları araştıran ekonomik-üretken insanlar, ince ekonomik olmayan holdinglerin ekimi ile uğraştı. Çiftçi ailelerinin zayıf ekonomik durumu, çiftçilerin çoğunu, çiftlik operasyonları için aile emeğine güvenmeye zorladı ve böylece çocuklarının ve gençlerinin çoğunun okula gitmemesine neden oldu. Ayrıca, çiftçilerin çoğu, optimum işgücü verimliliği seviyesine (sınır noktası) ulaşmalarını sağlamak için gereken çok az teknik destekle işgücü kullanımında oldukça verimliydi. Bununla birlikte, ampirik kanıtlar, çiftlik ve çiftlik dışı faaliyetler arasındaki işgücü talebi rekabetinin ve işletmedeki uzun ömürlülükten kaynaklanan muhafazakar ve kayıtsız tutumların işgücü verimliliğini etkileyen faktörler olduğunu göstermiştir. Bu nedenle, çalışma, kadınların üretken kaynaklar konusundaki zorluklarını aşmak için tarımsal bütçede toplumsal cinsiyetin ana akımlaştırılması çağrısında bulunuyor; işletmeyi teşvik etti, yani. kredi temini; ve yenilikçi pirinç teknolojilerinin transferinde araştırma ve pratik gösterim yaklaşımında aşağıdan yukarıya yaklaşımın benimsenmesi.
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- Akanni, A. K., & Dada, A. O. (2012). Analysis of labour-use patterns among smallholder cocoa farmers in South Western Nigeria. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, 2, 107-113
- Anyiro, C. O., Emerole, C. O., Osondu, C. K., Udah, S. C., & Ugorji, S. E. (2013). Labour-use efficiency by smallholder yam farmers in Abia State Nigeria: A labour-use requirement frontier approach. International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics, 1, 151-163.
- Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). (2017). Food and Agricultural Organization Database, available at www.fao.org. Accessed on 20/11/2019.
- Kadurumba, C., Uche, C. N., & Omole, M. S. (2020). Labour-use efficiency by smallholder rice farmers in Ebonyi State Nigeria: A labour-use requirement frontier approach. International Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 23(1), 4821-4829
- Masso, T. I., & Heshmati, O. A. (2003). Sources of technological development in the Spanish food and drink industry, a “supplier dominated” industry. Agribusiness, 15(4), 441-448.
- Olayemi, I. K., Idris, B., Ejima, I. A. A., Adeniyi, K., Ukubuiwe, A. C., & Isah, B. (2014). The climate of north-central Nigeria and potential influence on mosquito (Diptera culicidae) vectorial capacity for disease transmission. Global Journal of Multidisciplinary and Applied Sciences, 2(2), 26-31.
- Oluyole K. A., Egbetokun, O. A., Oni, O. A., & Aigbekaen, E. O. (2011). Technological changes and labour demand among cocoa farmers in Nigeria. World Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 7(5), 638-641.
- Sadiq, M. S., & Singh, I. P. (2016). Empirical analysis of economics of scale and cost efficiency of small-scale maize production in Niger state, Nigeria. Indian Journal of Economics and Development, 12(1), 55-63.
- Sadiq, M. S., Singh, I. P., & Ahmad, M. M. (2020a). Resource-use efficiency of rice farmers participating in Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) in Niger State of Nigeria. Economic Affairs, 65(2), 129-136.
- Sadiq, M. S., Singh, I. P., Ahmad, M. M., & Kumari, V. (2020b). Effect of gender on income gap among fish farmers in Nigeria’s Kogi State. Atatürk University Journal of Woman’s Studies, 2(2), 27-45.
- Ugorji, S. E. (2013). Labour use efficiency in yam production in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State. B.Sc Project submitted to the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension. Abia State University, Umuahia Campus, Abia State, Nigeria.
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Subjects | Agricultural Policy |
| Journal Section | Research Articles |
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| Early Pub Date | September 28, 2023 |
| Publication Date | September 30, 2023 |
| Submission Date | July 15, 2022 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2023 Volume: 3 Issue: 2 |
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