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Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes
The formation of agricultural cooperatives has been widely promoted as an agricultural development policy initiative to help smallholder farmers cope with multiple production and marketing challenges. Using a nationally representative survey dataset of smallholder maize producers from rural Nigeria,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7822389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33481874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245426 |
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author | Olagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi Ogunniyi, Adebayo Isaiah Oyetunde-Usman, Zainab Omotayo, Abiodun Olusola Awotide, Bola Amoke |
author_facet | Olagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi Ogunniyi, Adebayo Isaiah Oyetunde-Usman, Zainab Omotayo, Abiodun Olusola Awotide, Bola Amoke |
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description | The formation of agricultural cooperatives has been widely promoted as an agricultural development policy initiative to help smallholder farmers cope with multiple production and marketing challenges. Using a nationally representative survey dataset of smallholder maize producers from rural Nigeria, this study assesses the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on technical efficiency (TE). We based our estimation approach on the combination of a newly developed sample selection stochastic production frontier model with propensity score matching to control for possible selectivity biases from both observables and unobservables. We estimate stochastic meta-frontiers to examine TE differences between cooperative members and non-members. Our results reveal that TE levels of members are consistently higher than that of non-members. This calls for continued policy incentives targeted at encouraging farmers to form as well as participate in agricultural cooperatives. |
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spelling | pubmed-78223892021-01-29 Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes Olagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi Ogunniyi, Adebayo Isaiah Oyetunde-Usman, Zainab Omotayo, Abiodun Olusola Awotide, Bola Amoke PLoS One Research Article The formation of agricultural cooperatives has been widely promoted as an agricultural development policy initiative to help smallholder farmers cope with multiple production and marketing challenges. Using a nationally representative survey dataset of smallholder maize producers from rural Nigeria, this study assesses the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on technical efficiency (TE). We based our estimation approach on the combination of a newly developed sample selection stochastic production frontier model with propensity score matching to control for possible selectivity biases from both observables and unobservables. We estimate stochastic meta-frontiers to examine TE differences between cooperative members and non-members. Our results reveal that TE levels of members are consistently higher than that of non-members. This calls for continued policy incentives targeted at encouraging farmers to form as well as participate in agricultural cooperatives. Public Library of Science 2021-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7822389/ /pubmed/33481874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245426 Text en © 2021 Olagunju et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Olagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi Ogunniyi, Adebayo Isaiah Oyetunde-Usman, Zainab Omotayo, Abiodun Olusola Awotide, Bola Amoke Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes |
title | Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes |
title_full | Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes |
title_fullStr | Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes |
title_full_unstemmed | Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes |
title_short | Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes |
title_sort | does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in nigeria: an analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7822389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33481874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245426 |
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