Does the use of multiple agricultural technologies affect household welfare? Evidence from Northern Ghana

IF 1.6 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agrekon Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/03031853.2021.1992290

Wencong C. Lu, K. Addai, John N. Ng’ombe

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Agricultural intensification has been encouraged through the promotion of various agricultural technologies, but the synergies between different technologies have not been fully explored among various specific crops. Using the multinomial endogenous switching regression model complemented with the multivalued inverse probability regression model, this study determines the impacts of the adoption of combinations of chemical fertiliser, improved rice seeds, and herbicides on household welfare. Data were collected from 900 farm households in Northern Ghana. Our results indicate that the adoption of combinations of agricultural technologies is affected by various socio-economic attributes, resource constraints, institutional factors, and production shocks. We find that adopting multiple technologies improves rice yields, gross rice income, and per capita consumption expenditure. The results point out the crucial synergistic effects of the adoption of agricultural technologies on household welfare. We suggest that policies aimed at strengthening farm household welfare should encourage adopting multiple agricultural technologies in rice-producing farm households to realise the most welfare.

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多种农业技术的使用是否会影响家庭福利？来自加纳北部的证据

摘要农业集约化是通过推广各种农业技术来鼓励的，但不同技术之间的协同作用尚未在各种特定作物中得到充分探索。本研究使用多项式内生切换回归模型和多值逆概率回归模型，确定了化肥、改良水稻种子和除草剂组合对家庭福利的影响。数据来自加纳北部的900个农户。我们的研究结果表明，农业技术组合的采用受到各种社会经济属性、资源约束、制度因素和生产冲击的影响。我们发现，采用多种技术可以提高水稻产量、水稻总收入和人均消费支出。研究结果指出了采用农业技术对家庭福利的关键协同效应。我们建议，旨在加强农户福利的政策应鼓励在水稻生产农户中采用多种农业技术，以实现最大的福利。

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Agrekon AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

7.70%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Agrekon publishes scholarly articles that contribute to the existing literature in the domain of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics as it applies to Southern Africa. The editors of Agrekon therefore invite contributions in this context that provide new insights, either through the problems they address, the methods they employ or the theoretical and practical insights gained from the results. The quarterly journal serves as the official publication of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA) and is published by Taylor & Francis.