Abstract
Agricultural economists continue to argue if mixed or sole cassava cropping system is more economically profitable and in terms of yield and returns to farmers particularly for Nigeria which is the world’s largest producer of the crop. The study was carried out to analyse the economics comparatively of mixed and sole cassava cropping systems in Nigeria. The study made use of both primary and secondary data. Primary data were collected with the aid of well-structured questionnaires assisted with interview schedules. Field data collection was conducted between March and April, 2014. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select four hundred and eighty (480) respondents across the six major cassava-producing states in Nigeria (Benue, Cross Rivers, Enugu, Kogi, Ondo, and Oyo). Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics and comparative budgetary analysis. The study showed that mixed cropping system is more male-dominated than sole cropping system. The study also revealed that sole cassava cropping system is more economically profitable than mixed cassava cropping system while the later provides opportunities of all-year-round farm incomes to serve as a better poverty- alleviating mechanism.
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Claim · model-written summary
Mixed cassava cropping is more male-dominated than sole cropping.
- Taxon
- Cassava
Manihot esculentat0 - Treatment
- mixed cropping systeme1
- Outcome
- male-dominatede1
- Direction
- moree1
- Comparator
- sole cropping systeme1
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Verbatim
t0“Comparative Economic Study of Mixed and Sole Cassava Cropping Systems in Nigeria”
e1“The study showed that mixed cropping system is more male-dominated than sole cropping system”
Claim · model-written summary
Sole cassava cropping is more economically profitable than mixed cassava cropping.
- Taxon
- cassavaManihot esculentae1
- Treatment
- sole cassava cropping systeme1
- Outcome
- economically profitablee1
- Direction
- moree1
- Comparator
- mixed cassava cropping systeme1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Comparative Economic Study of Mixed and Sole Cassava Cropping Systems in Nigeria”
e1“The study also revealed that sole cassava cropping system is more economically profitable than mixed cassava cropping system”
Claim · model-written summary
Mixed cassava cropping provides all-year-round farm incomes and is a better poverty-alleviating mechanism.
- Taxon
- CassavaManihot esculentat0
- Outcome
- all-year-round farm incomese1
- Qualifier
- a better poverty- alleviating mechanisme1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Comparative Economic Study of Mixed and Sole Cassava Cropping Systems in Nigeria”
e1“the later provides opportunities of all-year-round farm incomes to serve as a better poverty- alleviating mechanism”
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cultivation system · yield · Manihot esculenta (cassava)Positive and negative results
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