Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda (English)

This paper estimates the profitability of fertilizer and hybrid seeds in Uganda, using agronomic evidence on the yield returns to inputs from experimental fields, as well as output price data from local markets between 2000 and 2012. The results suggest that the returns to fertilizer are positive across the entire price range for beans, maize, and matooke and positive for the top 75 percent of prices for coffee. Commonly available improved seed varieties...

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Hill,Ruth;

Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina;

Vasilaky,Kathryn;
Document Date
2018/10/29
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8627
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Uganda,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2018/10/29
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda
Keywords
farmer

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Hill,Ruth; Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina; Vasilaky,Kathryn.

Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8627 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/726321540832524595

Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda (English)

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