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Impact of Seed Voucher System on Rice Farmers’ Welfare in Nigeria: A Randomized Control Trial Approach

Year: 2012

Type: preprint

Abstract: This study adopted Randomized Control Trial to examine the impact of seed voucher system on farming households’ welfare in Nigeria using cross-sectional data of 600 rice farmers randomly selected from the three major rice ecologies of Nigeria. The WALD estimate reveals that the use of seed voucher increased household Per Capita Expenditure (PCE) by N14705.91. While the result of the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE), shows a positive and significant impact of N7928.15 on PCE. Therefore, the use of seed voucher to grant farmers assess to certified improved rice seed can generate improvement in farmers’ welfare if strongly pursue.

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.124995

Authors: Awotide, Bola Amoke, Awoyemi, Taiwo Timothy, Diagne, Aliou, Ojehomon, Vivian E.T.

Language: English

Topic: Agricultural Innovations and Practices

Subfield: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, No poverty

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1541555293

Cites: 40

Cited by: 2

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