Comparing Yields and Profitability in MADER's High- and Low-Input Maize Programs: 1997/98 Survey Results and Analysis

Julie Howard, José Jaime Jeje, Valerie Auserehl Kelly () and Duncan H. Boughton ()

No MZ-MINAG-RR-39E, International Development Collaborative Working Papers from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: This paper summarizes the results from data collected and analyzed during the study’s second year. The 1997/98 analysis is based on a stratified sample of 210 smallholder maize farmers in Nampula Province. In contrast to the 1996/97 research, when the sample was composed entirely of farmers using the DNER/SG high-input package (improved seed, fertilizer, improved practices), the 1997/98 sample strata represent three different sets of production practices: (1) the DNER/SG high-input, improved management package; (2) an improved management only program implemented by the extension service (improved practices, local seed, no fertilizer); and (3) a control group of farmers who did not participate in any formal program.

Keywords: food security; food policy; Mozambique; maize (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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