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Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

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Date: 2013-01
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Profitability of fertilizer: Experimental evidence from female rice farmers in Mali

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Abstract: In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor. This highlights that farmers respond to an increase in availability of one input by re-optimizing other inputs, making it challenging to isolate the returns to any one input. We also found that while the increase in inputs led to a significantly higher level of output, we find no evidence that profits increased. Our results suggest that fertilizer's impact on profits is small compared to other sources of variation. This may make it difficult for farmers to observe the impact of fertilizer on their plots, and accordingly this affects their ability to learn about the returns to fertilizer and could affect their decision to adopt even in the absence of credit constraints.
Keywords: agricultural economicsreturns to fertilizer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2013-02
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Seasonality prices of mineral fertilizers in selected European Union countries

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Arkadiusz Zalewski (arkadiusz.zalewski@ierigz.waw.pl) and Katarzyna Rola(katarzyna.rola@ierigz.waw.pl)
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Abstract: Mineral fertilizer market is characterized by seasonal demand, which in turn may affect the seasonal price fluctuations. The study analyzed the size and distribution of the seasonal fluctuations in the prices of mineral fertilizers in Poland, Germany, France, Ireland and Slovenia. The study indicates the existence of a clear seasonality in fertilizer prices in all markets analyzed. Tested markets differ in amplitude of seasonal variations. Seasonal increases in fertilizer prices in the countries surveyed, the most commonly observed in January-March, while seasonal declines in prices occurred mostly from May to July. The biggest seasonal changes in prices observed in the case of nitrogen fertilizers. Other groups of mineral fertilizers were characterized by significantly lower seasonal fluctuations.
Keywords: seasonalitymineral fertilizerprices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11
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The role of fertilizer in sustaining food security and protecting the environment to 2020

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Balu Bumb and Carlos A. Baanante
Abstract: "In this discussion paper ... [the authors] ... review past trends in fertilizer use, estimate future needs, and assess technical and policy measures for dealing with environmental and energy concerns related to fertilizer use" P. v.
Keywords: Food security.Fertilizers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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The Role of Mineral Fertilizers in Transforming Philippine Agriculture

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Abstract: Fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the 1970s to today`s market-oriented regime. Government has abandoned price policies and subsidies, focusing rather on standard setting, quality regulation, and training. Over the same period domestic demand for fertilizer has continually been increasing, though recently resurgent fertilizer prices have reduced total utilization. Evidence suggests that farmers are under-applying fertilizer, thereby forfeiting efficiency gains at the margin. On the supply side, imports have in the past few decades emerged, as the main source of fertilizer as domestic production has dwindled. With deregulation, numerous private sector players have taken over the distribution of fertilizers; analysis of the supply chain points to low marketing margins. Integration analysis fails to find systematic arbitrage opportunities between the domestic and world markets. Within the domestic market, however, there remain large disparities in prices across regions. Priorities for research and policy are therefore understanding the behavior of farmers in terms of fertilizer application and addressing internal price disparities, perhaps by improved transport infrastructure and logistics.
Keywords: competitionPhilippinesmarket integrationfertilizer policyfertilizer demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Fertilizer Use and Price Statistics, 1960-93

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Harold H. Taylor

Abstract: The rapid growth in fertilizer consumption throughout the sixties and seventies peaked at 23.7 million nutrient tons in 1981. After falling to 18.1 million tons in 1983, use has remained relatively stable, ranging from 19.1 to 21.8 million tons during 1984-93. Use has declined from its peak level because of fewer planted acres and stabilizing rates of application. Farm fertilizer prices, while stable or declining during the sixties, have varied widely since 1973. This bulletin includes quarterly or semiannual time series for farm fertilizer prices, annual, farm and wholesale fertilizer price indexes, fertilizer consumption by plant nutrient and major selected products, consumption of mixed fertilizers and secondary and micronutrients, and statistics on fertilizer use per acre by nutrient in the major producing States for corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat.
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Perception and Real Quality of Fertilizer

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Ling Yee Khor and Manfred Zeller
Keywords: fertilizer use intensitylow quality fertilizerperceived qualityConsumer/Household EconomicsCrop Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Constraints to fertilizer use in Nigeria

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Abstract: Fertilizer consumption rates in Nigeria remains among the lowest in the world despite decades of aggressive subsidization. The extension service in Nigeria has a double-edged impact on fertilizer use in the country; not only can their activities increase farmers’ demand for fertilizer, but also the organizational framework of the service, Agricultural Development Programs, is the major source of fertilizer for farmers. To provide insights on the reasons for the low fertilizer use in Nigeria, this paper presents an analysis of the extension service as well as some perspectives of village extension agents. We find that the reach of the extension service is severely limited by low staff. The main technology transmitted is the use of improved seeds. Fertilizer technology is seldom transmitted and very rarely is irrigation taught. Furthermore, extension agents are found to have gaps in their knowledge of fertilizer technology. Extension agents routinely distribute agricultural inputs and many see their advisory role as secondary to this function. Extension agents identified the primary constraint to fertilizer use in Nigeria as the physical absence of the product at the time that it is needed, rather than lack of affordability or farmers’ lack of knowledge about the benefits or the use of fertilizer.
Keywords: Agricultural growth and technologiesExtensionFertilizerSubsidies(search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Readdressing the Fertilizer Problem

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Abstract: The production literature has shown that inputs such as fertilizer can be defined as risk-increasing. However, farmers also consistently overapply nitrogen. A model of optimal input use under uncertainty is used to address this paradox. Using experimental data, a stochastic production relationship between yield and soil nitrate is estimated. Numerical results show that input uncertainty may cause farmers to overapply nitrogen. Survey data suggest that farmers are risk averse, but prefer small chances of high yields compared to small chances of crop failures when expected yields are equivalent. Furthermore, yield risk and yield variability are not equivalent.
Keywords: cornyield risknitrogen fertilizerrisk-increasing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02-04
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Published in Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2010, vol. 35, pp. 368-384
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The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Tanzania: Evidence for fertilizer policy development

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Todd Benson (t.benson@cgiar.org), Stephen L. Kirama and Onesmo Selejio

Abstract: This paper presents the results of a broad study of fertilizer supply to smallholder farmers in Tanzania that was done to assess whether the taxes (explicit or implicit) that are applied at various points along the fertilizer importation and marketing chain or the absence of key public goods and services reduces the access that smallholder farmers have to fertilizer. The study involved a review of the literature of fertilizer supply, demand, and use; interviews with key participants in fertilizer importation and marketing in Tanzania; and two surveys—one with farmers and the other with input suppliers—in three farming areas where more fertilizer is used than is the norm for the country as a whole.
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The supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Mozambique: Evidence for fertilizer policy development

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Abstract: This paper presents the results of a broad study of fertilizer supply to smallholder farmers in Mozambique that was done to assess whether the taxes (explicit or implicit) that are applied at various points along the fertilizer importation and marketing chain, or the absence of key public goods and services, reduces the access that smallholder farmers have to fertilizer. The study involved a review of the literature of fertilizer supply, demand, and use; interviews with key participants in fertilizer importation and marketing in Mozambique; and two surveys—one with farmers and the other with input suppliers—in two farming areas where more fertilizer is used than is the norm for the country as a whole.
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Understanding the role of research in the evolution of fertilizer policies in Malawi

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Michael E. Johnson and Regina Birner (regina.birner@uni-hohenheim.de)

Abstract: This study examines the role of research in agricultural policy making in Malawi at a time when the Africa Union and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development have been seeking to promote greater evidenced-based decision making in agriculture. Drawing on both theory and actual past experiences documented in the literature, results are intended to improve our understanding of the extent to which research has played any role in influencing policy change in Malawi. This is done in the context of the evolution of the country’s fertilizer subsidy policies.
Keywords: Policy processAgricultural policyPolicy researchfertilizerfertilizer policyfertilizer subsidiesfertilizer subsidy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Regional differences in the level of consumption of mineral fertilizers in Poland

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Arkadiusz Zalewski (arkadiusz.zalewski@ierigz.waw.pl)
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Abstract: The article studied regional differences in the level of fertilization in Poland. Analyzed the potential factors influencing the differences in fertilization between voivodeships. In order to study regional differentiation in mineral fertilizers used cluster analysis (Ward's method). As a result of grouping objects received five clusters of of voivodeships. A group of of voivodeships differed in terms of the proposed features, while the voivodeships within the group were characterized by similar values of variables. The voivodship with the highest level of mineral fertilization characterized by the largest area of farms, the largest share of sowings in the agricultural area, the largest share of farms specializing in field crops and the largest level of calcium fertilization. It may be assumed that the farmers of these voivodeships have obtained the best results from agricultural activities, which favored investing in agricultural inputs.
Keywords: consumptionmineral fertilizersagricultural (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Poverty program participation and employment in timber-dependent counties

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Peter BerckChristopher CostelloSandra Hoffman and Louise Fortmann
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Abstract: This paper uses cointegrated time-series methods to evaluate the effect of timber employment on participation in a major poverty program-Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Unemployed Parent (AFDC-UP). The study is conducted for major timber-producing counties in California. It is shown that a two-sector structural model can be solved to produce an error-correction model. An error-correction model is estimated with time series on state and county AFDC-UP caseload, state employment, county nontimber employment, and county timber employment. Utilizing tests on the cointegrating space, it is shown that there is no long-run relationship between poverty and timber employment in 10 of the 11 counties studied.
Keywords: afdceconomic conditionsemploymentpovertytimbertime-series analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Malaysia?s competitiveness in the European timber market

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Noor Aini ZakariaIsmariah Ahmad and Lim Hin Fui (limhf@frim.gov.my)
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Abstract: Europe has been in prolonged debt crisis and the markets including timber products were badly affected. Since the 1970?s, European market has been one of the traditional markets for Malaysian timber products, particularly sawntimber. Currently, Malaysia is facing many competitors (especially Brazil and China) in the export of timber products to the European market. To what extent is Malaysia affected by the increasing international competition and what are the steps necessary to remain competitive?
Keywords: Malaysiaforest productstimbermarkettradeconsumptionEurope(search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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