Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana
This paper describes how modern service providers have emerged in the African agricultural sector, a subject that has been vastly understudied. The paper looks at providers of modern rice mills, power tillers, combine harvesters, and production services at a highly productive rice irrigation scheme...
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| author | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Agandin, John Kolavalli, Shashidhara |
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| author_facet | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Agandin, John Kolavalli, Shashidhara |
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| description | This paper describes how modern service providers have emerged in the African agricultural sector, a subject that has been vastly understudied. The paper looks at providers of modern rice mills, power tillers, combine harvesters, and production services at a highly productive rice irrigation scheme in Ghana. These service providers earn net profits that are greater than the profits they would likely achieve from simply expanding rice production without investing in respective machines, suggesting that higher returns primarily induce the emergence of these modern providers. Surpluses and experiences from their years of rice production are likely to have provided the primary finance and knowledge required for entry. The service providers emerged by exploiting both the economies of scale and the economies of scope, keeping rice production as the primary source of income, instead of specializing only in service provisions. Key policy implications are also discussed. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1477212025-11-06T06:42:14Z Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana Takeshima, Hiroyuki Agandin, John Kolavalli, Shashidhara power tools mills agricultural sector rice combine harvesters irrigation schemes This paper describes how modern service providers have emerged in the African agricultural sector, a subject that has been vastly understudied. The paper looks at providers of modern rice mills, power tillers, combine harvesters, and production services at a highly productive rice irrigation scheme in Ghana. These service providers earn net profits that are greater than the profits they would likely achieve from simply expanding rice production without investing in respective machines, suggesting that higher returns primarily induce the emergence of these modern providers. Surpluses and experiences from their years of rice production are likely to have provided the primary finance and knowledge required for entry. The service providers emerged by exploiting both the economies of scale and the economies of scope, keeping rice production as the primary source of income, instead of specializing only in service provisions. Key policy implications are also discussed. 2017 2024-06-21T09:23:13Z 2024-06-21T09:23:13Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147721 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153541 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146282 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150234 application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Agandin, John; and Kolavalli, Shashidhara. 2017. Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1678. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147721 |
| spellingShingle | power tools mills agricultural sector rice combine harvesters irrigation schemes Takeshima, Hiroyuki Agandin, John Kolavalli, Shashidhara Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana |
| title | Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana |
| title_full | Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana |
| title_short | Growth of modern service providers for the African agricultural sector: An insight from a public irrigation scheme in Ghana |
| title_sort | growth of modern service providers for the african agricultural sector an insight from a public irrigation scheme in ghana |
| topic | power tools mills agricultural sector rice combine harvesters irrigation schemes |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147721 |
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