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Technical Efficiency And Impact Evaluation Differentials Between The Adopters And Non-adopters Of Nerica In The Six Baseline States In Nigeria
The study examined the adoption rate of New Rice for Africa (NERICA), technical efficiency differentials of production of these varieties between adopters and non-adopters and the determinants.It further analysed the impact of adoption of NERICA on area cultivated, output, yield, expenditure and total income of rice farmers in the NERICA baseline states in Nigeria.To achieve the objectives, it employed the descriptive statistics, stochastic production frontier and counterfactual outcomes framework of modern evaluation technique (the Local Average Treatment Effect) to analyse 621 rice farmers a…
