Does Rice Importation Affect Production? Evidence from Nigeria Grace Oluwabukunmi Akınsola, Kikelomo Kehinde Osasona, Muhammad Adeiza Bello, Wasiu Oniboki Bello Journal of Tekirdag Agricultural Faculty, 2025 Rice is an important staple food in Nigeria, playing a critical role in the country’s food security, agricultural development, and economic growth. This research investigated how rice importation affected rice production and Nigeria's economic growth from 1990 to 2020 using time series data. The study aimed to understand the dynamics between rice importation, local production, and economic performance to inform policy decisions that promote agricultural sustainability. The data were analyzed with various econometrics models such as the trend model, Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test, Johansen Cointegration technique, Granger causality test, and simultaneous equation model. The results showed a significant gap between rice demand and supply in Nigeria and a long-run relationship between rice production, rice importation, and economic growth. While the gap indicated a high dependence on foreign rice to meet the rising domestic demand, the long-run relationship indicated that rice importation had a negative impact on the economy. The results also revealed causal relationships between rice production, rice importation, and GDP, and that rice importation had a negative and significant effect on Nigeria's economic growth and domestic rice production potential. Rice production in Nigeria was influenced by rice importation and population growth, while rice importation was affected by exchange rates and population growth. The study concluded that a sustained overdependence on rice importation has adverse consequences on Nigeria's economy and thereby suggested that the adoption of a multifaceted policy measure or strategy that emphasizes reducing rice importation, increasing domestic production of rice, and enhancing the standard of living for domestic rice producers is a key policy objective.
Effect of Flood on Poverty Status: Evidence from Sugar cane Farmers in Kwara State and Osun State of Nigeria Elizabeth Adewale, Grace Akinsola, Opeyemi Ayinde Journal of Tekirdag Agricultural Faculty, 2024 In Nigeria, sugarcane is a prominent crop and the primary crop used to produce sugar. However, floods have been a major tragedy that has troubled Nigeria's small-scale farmers. The bulk of rural poor people are these small-scale farmers, and as poverty rates have been rising over time, corrective action is required. This study was therefore carried out to assess the poverty status of sugar cane farming households (affected by flood, and unaffected by flood) in Kwara/Osun State of Nigeria. The study employed two-stage sampling technique to select 120 sugarcane farming households in the study area. Descriptive statistics, the Flood Loss Estimation, Logit Regression and Foster Greer Thorbecke (FGT) are the empirical analytical tools employed to analyze the data collected for the study. The results of the poverty index analysis revealed that 46 percent of the respondents are relatively poor, the poverty depth was 0.16 which implies that 16 percent were below the poverty line and the poverty severity was 0.07 which implies that 7 percent of the respondents were severely poor. Also, it revealed that flood shocks, gender, household size, household income, access to credit and membership to social organization were significant determinants of poverty. The study then came to the conclusion that many coping mechanisms people employ are corrosive because they have detrimental long-term implications on the sustainability of household subsistence. For future risk assessments and flood mitigation, the study advises using a holistic strategy and adept models. The remedies outlined in this paper would help the government, private sector, and sugar cane farmers economically.
Elimination of Diphenyl Organochlorine Pesticides from Environmental Samples through Adsorption and Microbial Degradation Advances in Environmental Research, 2023
