Profitability of Usage of Sawah Rice Technology Among Small Scale Farmers in Kebbi State, Nigeria

Background and Objective: Currently, Nigeria is not self-sufficient in rice production, but has the potential to produce more for domestic consumption and even export, for the states to be self-reliant in rice production farmers need to find a way to improve on the average yield per hectare.Therefore, the profitability of usage of Sawah rice technology in Kebbi State Nigeria was investigated.Materials and Methods: Well-structured questionnaire was used to obtain cross-sectional data from small scale rice farmers that utilize Sawah rice technology in Kebbi State, Nigeria in the 2021 cropping season using multistage sampling procedures.A list of rice farmers was obtained and a total of three hundred respondents were sampled.The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, gross margin analysis and the logit model.Results: It revealed that the usage of Sawah technology was widespread among rice farmers, the total returns of x487,381.60/hawere generated through the usage of Sawah rice technology, the logistic regression model revealed that age (t = 3.26; p = 0.001), no. of plots of land in separate places (t = 2.03; p = 0.0042), farming experience (t = 1.76; p = 0.079) and membership of farmers association (t = 1.66; p = 0.096) were variables that significantly influenced the usage of Sawah rice technologies among rice farmers in Kebbi State.Conclusion: It was concluded that the technology is profitable in the study area and there is a need to address the problem of limited land access due to the nature of the land tenure system to facilitate large-scale production to take advantage of the economy of scale.