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Credit and Rice Production among Small Scale Farmers in Niger State, Nigeria


Francis O. Nwankwo | Chinyere Frances Chigbo



Francis O. Nwankwo | Chinyere Frances Chigbo "Credit and Rice Production among Small Scale Farmers in Niger State, Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5, August 2019, pp.940-945, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd26485.pdf

The study investigated the effect of credit on rice production. A total of 300 respondents were selected from a population of 1,296,032 farmers rice farmers in zone “A” Agricultural Zone of Niger State, Nigeria. Taro Yamane method was used to determine the sample size while the multistage sampling technique was used to allocate the sample strata. A structured questionnaire capturing the issues raised in the objectives designed to elicit raw data from the sample. The data collected were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson Correlation and Regression Analyses) and were used to address the objectives and to test the hypotheses respectively. Findings of this study revealed that there were positive and significant relations between credit and rice output (r = 0.150; significant @ 0.001 level); and between credit and profitability/gross margin (r = 0.995; significant @ 0.001 level. Also, constraints to credit access were found to have significant effect on rice production (F ratio = 9.073; Significant @ 0.001). Based on these findings, it was recommended, among other things, for a credit policy review by the government at the local, state and federal levels to enhance access to credit among the small scale farmers in Niger State Nigeria.

credit, farm inputs, rice production, profitability, credit constraints


IJTSRD26485
Volume-3 | Issue-5, August 2019
940-945
IJTSRD | www.ijtsrd.com | E-ISSN 2456-6470
Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)

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