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Title: | The Direct Private Benefits of Participation in a Publicly Provided Surface Irrigation Scheme in the High Rainfall Area of Nigeria |
Author: | Oramah, B.O. |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | African Development Review |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 146-172 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | irrigation Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8268.1996.tb00085.x/pdf |
Abstract: | The present study evaluates the extent to which the government of Nigeria is achieving its goal of improving farmers' income through irrigation development by estimating the direct private benefits of participation in a rice irrigation scheme in the Lower Anambra Basin, based on survey data collected in 1989-1990. The analysis indicates that although nonirrigators appear most productive in the use of resources by recording the highest net profit per hectare, conjunctive operators (farmers combining irrigation and rainfed farming) net the highest annual income per household as a result of their ability to practise multiple cropping. Pure irrigators did poorest on both counts due to the high costs of production as a result of their relatively greater use of purchased inputs. Partial budgeting results indicate that a nonirrigator should adopt irrigation as a conjunctive operator rather than as a pure irrigator if he hopes to improve the household's annual income. A case is made for the introduction of rotational irrigation or the development of well irrigation at the tail end as a way of improving irrigated crop yields and irrigators' income. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in English and French. |