This study employed a choice model to examine the factors influencing the choice of post-harvest technologies in cassava starch processing, using a sample of five hundred and seventy (570) processors in the forest and guinea savanna zones of Nigeria. In addition, the profitability of various post-harvest technologies in the study area was assessed using the budgetary technique while the impact of improved post-harvest technology on processors’ revenue and output was analysed using the average treatment effect model. Sex of the processor, processing experience, income, and cost of post-harvest technology, the capacity of post-harvest technology and access to credit amongst others significantly influence the choice of post-harvest technologies. Although the use of improved post-harvest technology comes with a high cost, the net income from its use was higher than the other types of post-harvest technologies, suggesting that the use of improved techniques was more beneficial and profitable. In addition, using improved post-harvest technology had a positive and significant effect on output and income. These findings shows that investment in improved post-harvest technologies by cassava starch processors and other stakeholders would increase income, thus, improving welfare.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2020.e00276

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Adebayo Abasshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-3608

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2020.e00276

Social Science and Agribusiness

Agribusiness; Agronomy; Cassava; Plant Breeding; Plant Production; Post-Harvesting Technology; Socioeconomy; Value Chains

Cassava Starch; Postharvest Technology; Profitability; Processing; Economic Value

Africa; West Africa

Nigeria

Headquarters and Western Africa Hub

Scientific African