simple decision: whether to purchase fertilizer, and if so, how many bags. The return to fertilizer was dependent on a … positive effect on fertilizer purchases. Purchases were also found to depend on the realization of the weather in the previous … brings about and changes in perceptions of the costs and benefits of fertilizer purchases. …

Fertilizer consumption rates in Nigeria remains among the lowest in the world despite decades of aggressive … subsidization. The extension service in Nigeria has a double-edged impact on fertilizer use in the country; not only can their … activities increase farmers’ demand for fertilizer, but also the organizational framework of the service, Agricultural …

to fill this gap by estimating the effect of a targeted input subsidy on farmer participation in the private fertilizer … access to subsidized fertilizer on farmer participation in the private fertilizer market in Kano, Nigeria. The study finds … evidence that farmers who received subsidized fertilizer in 2009 tended to have less assets than their counterparts who did not …

context of the evolution of the country’s fertilizer subsidy policies. …

, the government has since 2007 introduced four major subsidy and support programs on fertilizer, mechanization, block farms …

The study involved interviewing a large number of stakeholders in fertilizer value chain, collection of data on costs …, econometrically derived profitability and yield responses, and the costs of government’s fertilizer promotion policies. Based the … estimates of the costs and margins in the fertilizer value chain, the study argues that the current value chain will not be …

intragroup dynamics on farmer experience of input voucher programs. Consequently, this research uses a fertilizer voucher scheme … in Nigeria to explore whether different methods of distributing fertilizer through farmer groups can affect an … intervention’s ability to increase farmer access to agricultural inputs. To receive a fertilizer voucher in a pilot targeted …

2006 of Nigeria’s National Fertilizer Policy. Rather than focusing on how research influences policy in general, examining … organizations, and the private sector) undoubtedly debated the content of the fertilizer policy. Thus, its successful formulation … contentious political issues, most prominently the issue of privatization of the fertilizer sector in place of the large-scale and …

Despite their disappointing performance in the recent past, fertilizer subsidies have re-emerged as a tool in the … agricultural strategies of many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The new paradigm for fertilizer subsidies calls for use of such … is some belief that with these innovations, fertilizer subsidy programs will circumvent the deleterious consequences of …