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    Characteristics and Trends in production and Market Potential of Certified Maize Seeds in Nigeria
    (National University of Lesotho: Faculty of Agriculture, 2007) Alimi, T.; Williams, S.B.; Bamire, A.S.; Akinrin, A. O.
    The study determined the characteristics and trends in market potential and production of certified maize seed in Nigeria. Data came from certified maize seed and maize grain farmers, and from various issues of Statistical Bulletins of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics, markov chain process, time series analysis and budgetary technique. Results of the analyses indicated that certified maize seed production is a modern farming method, and producers were mainly male, literate, had mean age of about 42 years and mean experience of 9 years in certified maize seed production. Producers operated as sole proprietors, obtained farmland largely through inheritance and used informal farm financing sources. The seed farmers prefer selling to government agencies that guarantee purchase of their entire seed output. Significant proportion (55%) of maize grain farmers did not use certified maize seed largely because of ignorance and lack of complementary inputs. Both market potential and production of certified maize seed will grow with time.
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    Sources of agricultural growth in Nigeria: is it horizontal and or vertical expansion
    (2009) Tijani, A.A.; Alimi, T.
    Knowledge of source(s) of increase in agricultural production is necessary for policy decisions. Increase in agricultural production could be achieved by increasing cropped area and or productivity. This paper examined the existence of long run relationship between area cultivated (hectarage) and production on the one hand and between crop yield (productivity) and production on the other hand for selected food crops in Nigeria using cointegration analysis. It also determined the magnitude as well as the persistence of production response to hectarage (or productivity) shocks for long run relationships by calculating variance decomposition and impulse responses. The results showed that long run relationship existed between hectarage and production for rice, cassava, groundnut, melon, maize and guinea corn and between productivity and production for guinea corn only;) horizontal expansion accounted for most variation in production of rice, maize, melon and cassava; and production response to hectarage shock was essentially expansionary and persistent in most cases. For sustained increase in agricultural production in Nigeria, efforts should be directed at policies that ensure easy availability of cropped land while not neglecting research into the better use of improved technology for productivity rise.