THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABLES AND CROP AREA ON MAIZE YIELD AND VARIABILITY IN GHANA
Climate change tends to have negative effects on crop yield through its influence on crop production. Understanding the relationship between climatic variables and crop area on the mean and variance of crop yield will facilitate development of appropriate policies to cope with climate change. This p...
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| author | Henry De-Graft Acquah Clement Kweku Kyei |
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| description | Climate change tends to have negative effects on crop yield through its influence on crop production. Understanding the relationship between climatic variables and crop area on the mean and variance of crop yield will facilitate development of appropriate policies to cope with climate change. This paper examines the effects of climatic variables and crop area on the mean and variance of maize yield in Ghana. The Just and Pope stochastic production function using the Cobb-Douglas functional form was employed. The results show that average maize yield is positively related to crop area and negatively related to rainfall and temperature. Furthermore, increase in crop area and temperature will enlarge maize yield variability while rainfall increase will decrease the variability in maize yield. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-022700c65fad411cb7e5afc9e46c28ae2023-09-03T01:42:30ZengiVolga PressRussian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences2226-11842012-10-0110101013THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABLES AND CROP AREA ON MAIZE YIELD AND VARIABILITY IN GHANAHenry De-Graft AcquahClement Kweku KyeiClimate change tends to have negative effects on crop yield through its influence on crop production. Understanding the relationship between climatic variables and crop area on the mean and variance of crop yield will facilitate development of appropriate policies to cope with climate change. This paper examines the effects of climatic variables and crop area on the mean and variance of maize yield in Ghana. The Just and Pope stochastic production function using the Cobb-Douglas functional form was employed. The results show that average maize yield is positively related to crop area and negatively related to rainfall and temperature. Furthermore, increase in crop area and temperature will enlarge maize yield variability while rainfall increase will decrease the variability in maize yield.http://www.rjoas.com/issue-2012-10/i010_article_2012_02.pdfClimatic variablesMean yieldYield variabilityProduction functionFixed effect modelPanel data |
| spellingShingle | Henry De-Graft Acquah Clement Kweku Kyei THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABLES AND CROP AREA ON MAIZE YIELD AND VARIABILITY IN GHANA Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences Climatic variables Mean yield Yield variability Production function Fixed effect model Panel data |
| title | THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABLES AND CROP AREA ON MAIZE YIELD AND VARIABILITY IN GHANA |
| title_full | THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABLES AND CROP AREA ON MAIZE YIELD AND VARIABILITY IN GHANA |
| title_fullStr | THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABLES AND CROP AREA ON MAIZE YIELD AND VARIABILITY IN GHANA |
| title_full_unstemmed | THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABLES AND CROP AREA ON MAIZE YIELD AND VARIABILITY IN GHANA |
| title_short | THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABLES AND CROP AREA ON MAIZE YIELD AND VARIABILITY IN GHANA |
| title_sort | effects of climatic variables and crop area on maize yield and variability in ghana |
| topic | Climatic variables Mean yield Yield variability Production function Fixed effect model Panel data |
| url | http://www.rjoas.com/issue-2012-10/i010_article_2012_02.pdf |
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