ABSTRACT: The paper analyzed small-scale rice production in Nigeria. Primary data were collected using well-structured
questionnaire for the study. Multi-stage random sampling technique was used to collected data from three
hundred and forty-nine (320) rice farmers used for the study. Total productivity index, resource-use efficiency
index and principal component analysis (PCA) were used to analyzed the data. The result of the total
productivity index revealed that majority of the farmers (62.18%) were sub-optimal (<1.00). The result of
resource-use efficiency further revealed that farm size (0.19), fertilizers (0.43), agrochemicals (0.37), seeds
(0.69) were over-utilized, while labour (1.64) was under-utilized. This implies sub-optimal allocation of
production resources by rice farmers in the study area........
Keywords: small-scale, rice production, productivity, resource-use, Nigeria
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