New Rice for Africa (NERICA) was introduced in Uganda to help rural farmers in improving their livelihood in terms of … income and food security. Using the livelihood impact analysis technique, this study sought to assess the role of NERICA in … purchased from NERICA proceeds is land. The main challenges to production and marketing are inadequate extension service and …

factors influencing the adoption and extent of use of NERICA rice varieties in Ghana. About 57.93 per cent of the sampled rice … producers allocated 35.77 per cent of their land to NERICA accounting for about 33.13 per cent of seeds planted. The Tobit … of seeds planted as well as the proportion of land allocated to the NERICA varieties. With the exception of distance to …

The NERICA varieties are modern rice varieties developed by AfricaRice which won its creator Monty Jones the 2004 World … differential impact of NERICA adoption on the yield and farmers’ household annual income using data from 342 rice farmers from … Benin. It applies the potential outcomes framework to estimate the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) of NERICA adoption …

The aim of this study was to assess the impact of adoption of new high-yielding varieties (NERICA) of rice on its … the same in NERICA and Non-NERICA villages. Moreover, at farmer level, the average impact of NERICA adoption on number of … modern rice varieties of the sub-population of NERICA potential adopters is 0.8. NERICA’s rice varieties had positively …

A new high-yielding upland rice variety known as New Rice for Africa (NERICA) has been recognised widely as a promising … NERICA’s widespread adoption. This study attempts to assess the major determinants of the adoption of NERICA in the early …€™ adoption of NERICA. This is likely because of government intervention under a programme that promoted domestic rice production …

factors influencing the adoption and extent of use of NERICA rice varieties in Ghana. About 57.93 per cent of the sampled rice … producers allocated 35.77 per cent of their land to NERICA accounting for about 33.13 per cent of seeds planted. The Tobit … of seeds planted as well as the proportion of land allocated to the NERICA varieties. With the exception of distance to …

Africa (NERICA) varieties in Nigeria when awareness of the new varieties and access to their seed are not constrained to … the determinants of adoption are estimated as well. Results show that NERICA adoption rate in Nigeria would have been up … to 54% if the whole population were aware and up to 62% if they had access to NERICA variety seed. The actually observed …