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Effect of Membership of Group-Farming Cooperatives on Farmers Food Production and Poverty Status in Nigeria

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The problems of agriculture affect mostly the smallholder farmers who have small fields in different places. Group-farming cooperatives serves as good alternative to boost food production as well as lifting people out of poverty. In this study we used a recent survey data in Nigeria to examine the effect of membership of group-farming cooperatives on food production and poverty status. Probit regression model estimate is used to analyse the decision to join group-farming cooperatives and the effect of membership of group-farming cooperatives on poverty status and ordinary least square is employed to examine the effect of membership of group-farming cooperatives on food production and productivity of farmers. We find that, group-farming cooperatives have positive and statistically significant effect on food proction at 5% level of significance; prevalence of poverty is higher among non-members of group-farming cooperatives. Being a member of other forms of cooperative also helps to reduce poverty among the farming households. Therefore, we recommend that both the government and non-governmental organization should develop strategies that will encourage participation in group-farming cooperatives and also create more awareness among farming households, which can motivate more farmers to partake in this form of farmers organizations. Acknowledgement : I acknowledge the effort of Dr R.O. Babatunde in this project.

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  • Adekunle, A., 2018. "Effect of Membership of Group-Farming Cooperatives on Farmers Food Production and Poverty Status in Nigeria," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277420, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaae18:277420
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.277420
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