Drivers of farmers market participation in southeast Nigeria

Opata, Patience Ifeyinwa; Ezeibe, Adaku Bridget; Arua, Rosemary Nnedinso

dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-30T17:46:54Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-30T17:46:54Z
dc.date.issued	2020-10-29
dc.identifier	doi:10.17170/kobra-202010191969
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11911
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.rights	Namensnennung 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject	yellow pepper	eng
dc.subject	transaction costs	eng
dc.subject	subsistence	eng
dc.subject	commercialisation	eng
dc.subject	quantile regression	eng
dc.subject.ddc	630
dc.title	Drivers of farmers market participation in southeast Nigeria	eng
dc.type	Aufsatz
dcterms.abstract	The objective of this paper was to investigate the drivers of farmers’ participation in the output market for yellow pepper using a sample of 420 randomly selected producers from 8,500 farmers in selected markets in southeast Nigeria. The heterogeneity of smallholder market participation was modelled with quantile regression. The variables that affected all the quantiles (i.e. for subsistence, semi-subsistence, intermediate, semi-commercial and commercially oriented farms) are the distance to the trading centre and the level of poultry manure applied. The estimated coefficients of poultry manure were statistically significant and directly related to commercialisation of pepper, while the distance to market was negatively correlated. The estimated coefficients for land size, age of household head, fertiliser and agrochemicals use, were positive and significant while income from other sources and asphalt road were negative and significant. It could be deduced from the results that specialisation and commercialisation in yellow pepper production in southeast Nigeria triggers the production of other commercial crops (i.e. cassava, maize, tomatoes, and garden eggs, groundnut, okra, fluted pumpkin, amaranth, and sweet potatoes). The findings showed that volume of pepper sold and total farm production and consumption were indicators for household food security and income. These suggest that smallholder market participation in West Africa could be driven by policies aimed at improving the commercial crops that are highly marketable, rural road infrastructure, market information systems, asset accumulation, human capital and promotion of farmer organisations.	eng
dcterms.accessRights	open access
dcterms.creator	Opata, Patience Ifeyinwa
dcterms.creator	Ezeibe, Adaku Bridget
dcterms.creator	Arua, Rosemary Nnedinso
dc.subject.swd	Nigeria (Südost)	ger
dc.subject.swd	Paprika <Gattung>	ger
dc.subject.swd	Eigenbedarf	ger
dc.subject.swd	Transaktionskosten	ger
dc.subject.swd	Kommerzialisierung	ger
dc.subject.swd	Lineares Regressionsmodell	ger
dc.subject.swd	Schätzung	ger
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
dcterms.source.identifier	EISSN 2363-6033
dcterms.source.issue	No. 2
dcterms.source.journal	Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics (JARTS)	eng
dcterms.source.pageinfo	207-217
dcterms.source.volume	Vol. 121
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