Economics of millet production under different cropping systems in Borno State of Nigeria
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Agricultural production, millet, cultivation systems, NigeriaSynopsis
Th purpose ofthe study was to cietermine the economics of millet production under different cropping systems in Borno State of Nigeria .. The specific objectives were to identify the socio- economic characteristics of the millet growing farmers; determine the resource use in the cropping , systems; determine the relationship between socio-ecoriomic variables and agricultural outputs of • the farmers; determine ' differences in cost and rèturns among millet ' crop mixtures; estimate production functions for millet cropping systems; compare relative importance and resource use efficiency of common resources used in millet crop mixtures; and identify the major technical and ' · socio-economic problèms of the millet growing farmers .. Data for the study were collected using questionnaire· and interview schedüles administered to 1.80 farmers growing millet in mixtures. ·Thirty six (36) farmers were randomly selected from each of the stratum of the five major millet crop mixtures grown in. the study area; namely; millet/ sorghum, millet/ cowpea, milleygroundnut, . millet/sorghum/cowpea andmillet/sorghum/ groundnut . . Analysis of data was achieved by means of simple descriptive statistics, gross margin analysis, multiple regression, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and chi-square statistfo '()f). The major findings of the study indicate that· educational level of the farmers, resident . household size and number of extensimi workers visits were the major socio-economic variables which positively and significantly affected their outputs as indicated by the linear regressiàn model. Age and farming experience were inversely . related to output. Millet/cowpea mixture was the most profitable, with gross margin of N20,689.03. Food security objective, however, was the major reason for growing millet in mixtures.
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