Effects of agricultural mechanization on economies of scope in crop production in Nigeria

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierHiroyuki Takeshima: 0000-0002-1761-408X
cg.creator.identifierHyacinth Edeh: 0000-0003-0560-3604
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102691en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Nigeria Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Feed the Future
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0308-521Xen
cg.issue20-Janen
cg.journalAgricultural Systemsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume177en
dc.contributor.authorTakeshima, Hiroyukien
dc.contributor.authorHatzenbuehler, Patrick L.en
dc.contributor.authorEdeh, Hyacinth O.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:10:18Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:10:18Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142309
dc.titleEffects of agricultural mechanization on economies of scope in crop production in Nigeriaen
dcterms.abstractAgricultural mechanization has often been associated with scale-effects and increased specialization. Such characterizations, however, fail to explain how mechanization may grow in Africa where production environments are heterogeneous even within a farm household, and crop diversification may help in mitigating risks. Using panel data from farm households and crop-specific production costs in Nigeria, we estimate how the adoptions of animal traction or tractors affect the economies of scope (EOS) for rice, non-rice grains, and legumes/seeds, which are the crop groups that are most widely grown with animal traction or tractors in Nigeria, with respect to other non-rice crops. The inverse-probability-weighting method is used to address the potential endogeneity of mechanization adoption and is combined with primal- and dual-models of EOS estimation. The results show that the adoption of these mechanization technologies is associated with greater EOS between rice and non-rice crops but lower EOS among non-rice crops (i.e., between non-rice grains, legumes/seeds, and other non-rice crops). Mechanical technologies may raise EOS between crops that are grown in more heterogeneous environments, even though it may lower EOS between crops that are grown under relatively similar agroecological conditions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that shows the effects of mechanical technologies on EOS in agriculture in developing countries.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTakeshima, Hiroyuki; Hatzenbuehler, Patrick L.; and Edeh, Hyacinth O. 2020. Effects of agricultural mechanization on economies of scope in crop production in Nigeria. Agricultural Systems 177(January 2020): 102691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102691en
dcterms.issued2020-01-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133854en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1353/jda.2021.0083en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/6909en
dcterms.subjectregression analysisen
dcterms.subjectlegumesen
dcterms.subjecttechnologyen
dcterms.subjectriceen
dcterms.subjectcrop productionen
dcterms.subjecteconomicsen
dcterms.subjectagricultural mechanizationen
dcterms.subjectgrainen
dcterms.subjectdiversificationen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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