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Title: | A comparative study of the economic performance of farmers under large scale and motorized pump irrigation systems in Katsina State of Nigeria |
Author: | Alimi, Taiwo |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Discovery and Innovation (ISSN 1015-079X) |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 28-37 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria West Africa |
Subjects: | irrigation agricultural productivity food crops Agriculture, Agronomy, Forestry Irrigation pumps Farmers--Eonomic conditions |
External link: | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/dai/article/view/15804 |
Abstract: | This study determined the better irrigation method between large-scale and motorized pump to recommend to farmers in Katsina State of Nigeria. The target populations were farmers under large-scale (FULS) and farmers using motorized pumps (FUMP) and were compared along their socioeconomic characteristics, farm sizes, crop yields, costs and revenues of farming. The data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics; budgetary and regression techniques. Results indicated that the FUMP were older, had a larger family size and were less literate. The FULS had better access to inputs through government assistance, operated larger farm sizes and obtained larger mean yields. The higher output obtained by FULS was significant. Crop farming under the two systems was profitable but more profitable under FULS. As such, based on the present prevailing conditions, FULS would be recommended. In order to increase revenue (output) in irrigated farming, young individuals should be attracted, literacy encouraged and levels of fertilizers and loans increased. However, results indicated that FUMP were poorer in the socioeconomic characteristics that influence output which, if improved, could make FUMP comparable to FULS. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |