ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT EVALUATION OFDEVELOPMINTERVENTIONS ON GINGER PRODUCTION SYSTEM

Abstract

Ginger is a therapeutic crop with global acceptability due to its medicinal and economic values. Its value chain has been staggering over time as a result of some underlined factors and their associated effects. In
order to stimulate the performance of ginger value most especially, in rural communities where means of livelihood depend mostly on agriculture, development interventions needed to be put in place. In this study,
the impact of interventions on ginger outputs were measured from the surveys conducted from some randomly selected Local Government Areas in Kaduna State. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the socio-economic profile of the respondents; cost and return analyses were employed to measure the profitability of the ginger production system and multiple regression techniques were used to estimate the impact of the interventions on ginger outputs. Findings from the study indicated that the ginger production system was dominated by female adults and was also a profitable scheme. This was affirmed by the monetary value obtained from the variable cost of production and increasing rate of returns from the ginger output. It was also asserted that most of the determinant factors that influenced the land productivity of the ginger growers were positively significant with attendant jobs creation.