Rice is a staple crop in Nigeria. Even with a push to increase domestic production, little is known about the … functionality of Nigeria's open bag markets and the preferences of consumers for specific rice attributes. Our study uses a hedonic … Nigerian consumers prefer rice with homogenous long slender kernels and a low presence of broken rice and are indifferent to …

examines the relationship of household rice and noodle consumption in the Philippines. Results show that noodles are already a … substitute good for rice, but rice is not a substitute good for noodles. In addition, their respective demand exhibits negative … rice and noodles are normal goods. A number of significant variables on the characteristics of household heads suggest the …

Rice cultivation in Sub-Saharan Africa produces a negative externality in the form of higher malaria risk. Larval … source management, such as the application of bio-larvicides in rice fields, is available to mitigate the problem. However …, the cost of larvicide and the corresponding spraying campaigns is such that rice farmers are unable to carry all of the …