Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242711 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper No. 04/13
Publisher: 
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS), Ås
Abstract: 
The paper uses three years of household farm plot panel data (2006-2009), covering six districts in central and southern Malawi to assess factor productivity and farming system development under the input subsidy program. All farm plots of the households were measured with GPS. Maize production intensified in this period as maize area shares of the total farm size were reduced while input use intensity and yields increased. Yields of improved maize were significantly (+323 kg/ha) higher than for local maize. Improved maize seeds were used on only half of the maize plots that received subsidized fertilizer causing fertilizer use inefficiency.
Subjects: 
Maize
Malawi
improved varieties
input subsidies
fertilizer use efficiency
land productivity
farming system changes
JEL: 
Q16
Q18
ISBN: 
978-82-7490-214-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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