Fertilizer Use and Farmer Productivity in Nigeria

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie, B.T. Omonona, A. Sanou and W. Ogunleye

No 234952, Food Security Collaborative Policy Briefs from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: Increasing the use of modern inputs including fertilizer is key for raising agricultural productivity and reducing poverty in Nigeria, particularly and Africa more generally. However, based on recent empirical evidence from Nigeria, simply increasing the quantity of fertilizer used by smallholders is not likely to successfully drive this process. A more holistic approach that addresses the constraints to fertilizer profitability in Nigeria with appropriate consideration of the factors which will increase the efficiency of fertilizer use is necessary.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4
Date: 2016-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.234952

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