COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF HYBRID AND OPEN POLLINATED MAIZE PRODUCTION IN GIWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE OF NIGERIA
COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF HYBRID AND OPEN POLLINATED MAIZE PRODUCTION IN GIWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE OF NIGERIA
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2015-08-25
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TAIWO, AYINDE BINTU
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to conduct a comparative study, on the productivity of hybrid and
open-pollinated maize, of farmers in Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna state.
Precisely, using structured questionnaire through purposive and random sampling, it
evaluated current hybrid and open-pollinated maize production technologies by; describing
the farmers' major socio-economic characteristics and most importantly identifying the
economic difference between hybrid and open-pollinated maize, using the farm survey data
collected from 160 maize farmers in October- December 2009 for the cropping year 2009-10.
The cob-douglas production function model was best and the numbers of significant variables
were four for hybrid maize production namely farm-size (land); seeds; labour and fertilizer.
Open-pollinated maize production on the other hand, also has four significance variables
namely farm size (land); labour, fertilizer and insecticides. Z-test was used to test the
profitability of hybrid maize versus open-pollinated maize and the result revealed that hybrid
maize production was more profitable and the difference was statistically significant at 1%
level of significance.
The result of analysis of resource use efficiency of hybrid and open-pollinated maize shows
that the ratios were not equal to one. The ratio indicates that sampled farmers underutilized
fertilizer and insecticides. The efficiency ratio for seeds, labour and herbicides were less than
one showing that the sampled farmers over-utilized seeds, labour and herbicides on the farms.
This study recommends that credit facility particularly the procedure for loan should be made
simple to improve hybrid and open-pollinated maize production in the study area
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A Thesis submitted to the Post- Graduate School, Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science (Agricultural Economics).
Department of Agricultural Economics and
Rural Sociology,
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Keywords
COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC,, HYBRID,, OPEN POLLINATED MAIZE PRODUCTION,