This paper estimates the profitability of inorganic fertilizer use in maize production in Malawi. It employs a two-wave, nationally representative panel of data on smallholder households and plots to estimate household fixed effects, plot fixed effects, and multilevel regressions. The results suggest that inorganic fertilizer use is generally unprofitable at prevailing market prices when, assuming that farmers incur positive transaction costs in the...
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2024/07/24
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS10859
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2024/07/24
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Profitability of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Malawi