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Production Efficiency in Small Agriculture: Do Migrant Remittances Matter?Evidence from Rural Nigeria

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  • ODOZI, JOHN CHIWUZULUM
  • Adeniyi, Oluwaosin
  • Yusuf, Sulaiman A.

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This paper investigates how remittances flow to Nigeria from household migrants correlate with farm production efficiency of the left behind in rural areas using the Living Standard Measurement Survey data set. We applied the production frontier model from which efficiency scores for two groups of farmers were recovered: migrant households and non-migrant households. We subjected the efficiency scores to Anova and stochastic dominance analyses. Mean production efficiency for migrant households was signifcantly higher at p<0.05. Across all percentiles, migrant households had higher technical efficiency level compared to households with out migrants. Thus rejecting the hypothesis of negative production efficiency effect of migrant remittances flow to farm households. While policy programmes should promote labour mobility and remittances, it supposes a complementary policy that promote labour saving farm technologies

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  • ODOZI, JOHN CHIWUZULUM & Adeniyi, Oluwaosin & Yusuf, Sulaiman A., 2018. "Production Efficiency in Small Agriculture: Do Migrant Remittances Matter?Evidence from Rural Nigeria," AgriXiv jfvzn, Center for Open Science.
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    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/jfvzn
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