the welfare impact of farm households adoption of improved cassava varieties in Southwestern (SW) Nigeria using poverty as …Low adoption of modern agricultural technologies amongst farmers in Nigeria has been identified as one of the main … 312 cassava producing households (186 in Ogun State and 126 in Osun State). The data obtained were subjected to …

Determinants of export-led cassava production intensification among small-holder farmers were investigated. Primary …, cassava product domestic prices, labour and frequency of extension contact had positive effect on cassava output while … existence of efficient marketing system has negative effect on cassava output. Inadequate finance and high cost of labour were …

it determinants among homestead based cassava farmers in the south-south region of Nigeria. Two-stage random sampling … method was used to select 300 homestead based cassava farmers in the study area. Maximum likelihood estimates of the … significant factors affecting farm-level economic or profit efficiency in resource use among homestead based cassava farmers. Farm …

non-food and non-traditional industrial products of cassava that are competitive to penetrate export markets. In this way …Population in poverty and related statistics such as unemployment and income inequality in Nigeria is quite ….6 per cent in the urban centres. Cassava is now one of the priority crops to be used as a springboard to wriggle out of the …

This analysis compared the suitability of contiguous fallow-forest lands for cassava, yam, cocoyam and sweet potato … production in Nsukka, south-eastern Nigeria. The fallow plots were brought into cultivation in 1998 under the IITA-UNN long …-term collaborative research. The sole cassava plots were grown to cassava only continuously for five years and then left to fallow. Soil …

-increasing technology. We apply this approach to estimate the impact of a 10% increase in cassava yields in Nigeria. Using data from the … 2012-13 Nigeria General Household Survey, we simulate the effect of the technology on each household in the sample (micro …-simulation), taking into account both the yield increase and the resulting price reduction. The results suggest that the higher cassava …

government area of Imo state, Nigeria as cassava and its value chains offers veritable alternatives to sustainable food supply …An analysis was conducted of the profitability of converting cassava to its fufu value chain in Ikeduru local …, food security and have the potentials of creating jobs. The study was carried out using a sample of one hundred and ten …