Sustaining Smallholder Oil Palm Farmers Productivity Using Land Leasing Market Scheme In Oil Palm Producing Belt of Nigeria

Kenechukwu Chudi  Onukwube; Oluwafunmilayo Gloria Thompson

doi:10.31181/sa202558

Authors

Kenechukwu Chudi Onukwube Solidaridad West Africa (SWA), Regional Office, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria. Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6525-2909
Oluwafunmilayo Gloria Thompson Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Unit, Agro Traders Limited, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31181/sa202558

Keywords:

Sustainable development goal 2, Endogenous Switching Regression Model, Nigeria.

Abstract

The core intent of the study is to: (i) compare the profitability of the land leasing market scheme participating and non-participating smallholder oil palm farmers in oil palm producing belt of Nigeria; and (ii) assess the effect of land leasing market scheme on their productivity. Multistage sample method was employed to select 240 smallholder oil palm farmers (120 land leasing market scheme participating smallholder oil palm farmers, and 120 land leasing market scheme non-participating smallholder oil palm farmers). From the result, the net profit margin ratio for the land leasing participating farmers was 46.41%, non-participating farmers was 42.27%. The study further shows that age,^2,farm size, and knowledge of land leasing market scheme had negative value and the relationship was significant with land leasing market scheme participating status. The expected oil palm productivity from land leasing participating smallholder oil palm farmers was 2,946.4 kg/hectare compared with 2,042.0 kg/hectare from non-participating farmers. The study recommends that smallholder oil palm farmers should be sensitized by all stakeholders to participate in land leasing market scheme to increase their productivity.

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