Seed Quality: The Quiet Foundation of Rice Production
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Rice production often focuses on visible factors such as weather, fertilizer prices, or irrigation systems. Less attention is paid to seed quality, even though it quietly shapes everything that follows. Seed choice does not guarantee a good harvest, but poor seed quality almost guarantees uneven results.
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FG, Japan support 1,500 rice farmers in 10 states with farm inputs-official
FG, Japan support 1,500 rice farmers in 10 states with farm inputs-official
The Federal Government in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) are to support 1,500 Rice Farmers in 10 selected states with farm inputs.
Mohammed Sabo-Nanono, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, disclosed this while flagging off the distribution of the inputs to 150 beneficiaries on Thursday in Katsina.
Sabo-Nanono, represented by the State’s Director of the…
Firming up of prices, a sharp rise in cash-based sales impact the farm-input market
Firming up of prices, a sharp rise in cash-based sales impact the farm-input market
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Firming up of prices of pesticides by 5 to 10 per cent; unusually high demand for fertilizers; sharp rise in cash-based sales of both fertilizer and pesticide, replacing credit – Covid-19 and lockdown left a series of impact on India’s farm-input market in April-May, ahead of the Kharif season.
There is disagreement as to what led to a rise in cash sales, benefiting companies; but…
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/agricultural-engineering/29879/agricultural-cooperatives-and-rural-poverty-reduction-among-rural-farmers-in-anambra-state-nigeria/francis-o-nwankwo
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This study assessed the nexus between agricultural cooperative and rural poverty reduction in Anambra State. The study utilised primary data, which were extracted from the questionnaire distributed to 213 rural farmers in Anambra State. Descriptive statistics were used to present and discuss data, while inferential statistics such as Paired sample T Test were employed to test hypothesis at the 5 level. The results study reveal that cooperative credit, cooperative farm inputs, cooperative farm extension services and agricultural cooperative marketing have significant positive relationships with rural poverty reduction among farmers in Anambra State at 5 level of significance. The study recommends among others, that government should complement the efforts of cooperatives by evolving a favourable credit policy which would lead to entrepreneurial development in the rural areas and that government at the three levels and all stake holders should endeavour to assist in providing adequate farm input supplies, crop varieties, good storage facilities among others because of their multiplier effects on poverty reduction, food security, job and wealth creation.
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/26485/credit-and-rice-production-among-small-scale-farmers-in-niger-state-nigeria/francis-o-nwankwo
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The study investigated the effect of credit on rice production. A total of 300 respondents were selected from a population of 1,296,032 farmers rice farmers in zone ""A"" Agricultural Zone of Niger State, Nigeria. Taro Yamane method was used to determine the sample size while the multistage sampling technique was used to allocate the sample strata. A structured questionnaire capturing the issues raised in the objectives designed to elicit raw data from the sample. The data collected were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics Pearson Correlation and Regression Analyses and were used to address the objectives and to test the hypotheses respectively. Findings of this study revealed that there were positive and significant relations between credit and rice output r = 0.150 significant @ 0.001 level and between credit and profitability gross margin r = 0.995 significant @ 0.001 level. Also, constraints to credit access were found to have significant effect on rice production F ratio = 9.073 Significant @ 0.001 . Based on these findings, it was recommended, among other things, for a credit policy review by the government at the local, state and federal levels to enhance access to credit among the small scale farmers in Niger State Nigeria.
The Jigawa Government has distributed farm inputs to 32,859 victims of recent flooding in the North-east zone of the state.
Alhaji Imamu Mohammed, Chairman, Farm Inputs Distribution Committee in the zone, disclosed this on Monday in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Hadejia.
According to Mohammed, the farm inputs included 16,432 bags of fertilizer, 9,100 bags of maize seeds and…