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022			_a1574-0862 (Online)
022			_a0169-5150
024	8		_ahttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.0169-5150.2005.00013.x
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090			_aCIS-4393
100	1		_aLangyintuo, A.S. _9175
245	1	0	_aYield and income risk-efficiency analysis of alternative systems for rice production in the Guinea Savannah of Northern Ghana
260			_aUnited Kingdom : _bWiley, _c2005.
340			_aComputer File|Printed
500			_aPeer review
500			_aPeer-review: Yes - Open Access: Yes|http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=0169-5150
520			_aRisk efficiency of rice grain yield and returns to farm operators' household resources generated from an improved short-duration cover crop fallow system were compared with (traditional) natural bush fallow, and continuous rice-cropping systems. The improved fallow system involved maintaining Calopogonium mucunoides, seeded into a natural bush fallow for 2 years before planting to rice. With no chemical fertilizer application, which reflects farmers' practice in the area, average grain yield for continuous rice (1,185 kg/ha) and the cropping sequence incorporating a natural bush fallow (1,175 kg/ha) did not differ, but were higher for the improved fallow system (1,304 kg/ha). This suggests that nutrient contribution from the leguminous cover crop made up for critical crop N requirements in the improved fallow. Stochastic dominance of grain yield distributions from the improved fallow system, relative to the other two cropping systems, was more dramatic with no N fertilizer application compared to treatments with 30 kg/ha N. Average returns were highest for the improved fallow system, followed by the natural bush fallow-cropping system, and then continuous rice, under the no N fertilizer treatment regime. With 30 kg/ha N fertilizer, income risk efficiency was less clear (compared to treatments with no N fertilizer), especially between continuous rice and the improved fallow treatment, because of faster N mineralization effects on continuous rice. In contrast, the improved cover crop fallow system completely dominated the natural bush fallow treatment under both fertilizer regimes. Rice production systems that incorporated the leguminous cover crop fallow were superior to the natural bush fallow system, based on both grain yield and average farm income risk-efficiency considerations.
536			_aSocioeconomics Program
546			_aText in English
591			_a0504|John Wiley|AL-Economic Program
650		7	_aRice _2AGROVOC _91243
650		7	_aCover plants _2AGROVOC _92410
650		7	_aFallow systems _2AGROVOC _91106
650		7	_aDominant Genes _2AGROVOC _99057
650		7	_aStochastic processes _2AGROVOC _919487
700	1		_aYiridoe, E.K. _920535
700	1		_aDogbe, W. _920536
700	1		_aLowenberg-DeBoer, J. _912648
773	0		_tAgricultural Economics _n632871 _gv. 32, no. 2, p. 141-150 _dUnited Kingdom : Wiley, 2005. _wG444456 _x1574-0862
856	4		_yAccess only for CIMMYT Staff _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12665/505
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