Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes

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dc.contributor.authorOlagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi
dc.contributor.authorOgunniyi, Adebayo Isaiah
dc.contributor.authorOyetunde-Usman, Zainab
dc.contributor.authorOmotayo, Abiodun Olusola
dc.contributor.authorAwotide, Bola Amoke
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-27T11:23:01Z
dc.date.available2021-01-27T11:23:01Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-22
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 31 December 2020; Published online - 22 January 2021en_US
dc.description.abstractThe formation of agricultural cooperatives has been widely promoted as an agricultural development policy initiative to help smallholder farmers cope with multiple production and marketing challenges. Using a nationally representative survey dataset of smallholder maize producers from rural Nigeria, this study assesses the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on technical efficiency (TE). We based our estimation approach on the combination of a newly developed sample selection stochastic production frontier model with propensity score matching to control for possible selectivity biases from both observables and unobservables. We estimate stochastic meta-frontiers to examine TE differences between cooperative members and non-members. Our results reveal that TE levels of members are consistently higher than that of non-members. This calls for continued policy incentives targeted at encouraging farmers to form as well as participate in agricultural cooperatives.en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/205
dc.identifier.citationOlagunju, K. O., Ogunniyi, A. I., Oyetunde-Usman, Z., Omotayo, A. O. and Awotide, B. A. (2021) ‘Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributes’, PLOS ONE. Edited by J. M. Martínez-Paz. Public Library of Science (PLoS), 16(1), p. e0245426. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245426en_US
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245426
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.rights© 2021 Olagunju et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_US
dc.subjectAgricultural workersen_US
dc.subjectMaizeen_US
dc.subjectFarmsen_US
dc.subjectCereal cropsen_US
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.subjectSeedsen_US
dc.subjectIntercroppingen_US
dc.titleDoes agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved attributesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-12-31
dcterms.dateSubmitted2020-04-17

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