Impact and factors determining choice of hermetic maize storage technology adoption on smallholder farmers’ income in Gatsibo District, Rwanda

Gilberthe Uwera Benimana, Cecilia Ritho and Patrick Irungu

No 365890, 2023 Seventh AAAE/60th AEASA Conference, September 18-21, 2023, Durban, South Africa from African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE)

Abstract: The growing food demand occasioned by the rising global population is a major issue of global concern. It calls for an increase in food production to meet the global food demand. Studies have revealed that over 33% of the food produced globally get lost through post-harvest operations along the food supply chain. Lack of proper storage facilities and food handling practices are among the major causes of food losses. Reducing food losses using appropriate storage technologies is therefore important to curb food losses to ensure food and nutrition security. Thus, this study aimed to examine choices and the impact of adopting hermetic maize storage technologies (HST) on smallholder maize farmers’ income in Gatsibo district, Rwanda. using an endogenous switching regression (ESR) and multivariate probit model on 301 randomly selected smallholder maize farmers. The results revealed that only 41% were HST adopters. Membership in farmer groups, access to credit, the quantity of maize produced, access to training, and selling maize immediately after harvest were the major factors influencing farmers’ choices of alternative storage technologies. Overall, the adoption of HST had a positive and significant impact on income from stored maize among maize smallholder farmers. The study recommends that the government of Rwanda and other stakeholders should support the dissemination of HST to facilitate access. In addition, policies supporting the training of smallholder maize farmers on post-harvest loss reduction and facilitating smallholder farmers’ access to credit are highly recommended.

Keywords: Production; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/365890/files/3 ... ge%20in%20Rwanda.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:aaae23:365890

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.365890

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 2023 Seventh AAAE/60th AEASA Conference, September 18-21, 2023, Durban, South Africa from African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().