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 …

This study assesses the impact of increased fertilizer prices under different scenarios on rice production, consumption …, trade and prices. Using a global rice model based on a partial equilibrium framework, the simulation results show that a 30 …% to 100% increase in fertilizer prices would reduce rice yields by 0.45% to 1.33%, but increase world rice prices by 7% to …

The price of rice at the retail level affects consumer welfare and influences inflation. The research objective was to … study rice retail trader pricing behavior in traditional markets. This study employed an econometric model consisting of six … equations of price spread between the retail market level and wholesale level of different rice qualities and grades. To …