Impact of the Adoption of Electrical Equipment on Cotton Productivity in Benin
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Date
2026
Authors
Pascaline E. Agboca
Marcel O. Ifecro
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AERC
Abstract
In Benin, the improvement in cotton productivity occurred in a context of
increased access by farmers to electrical equipment. The objective of this research
is to analyze the effective contribution of the adoption of electrical equipment to
cotton productivity in the country. The regime switching model – MCR (endogenous
switching regression) is used based on data from the Harmonized Survey on
Household Living Conditions in Benin (EHCVM, 2019). The results obtained indicate
on the one hand that education, use of telephone, financial account, inputs,
transfers received, household shock and cultivation area are determining factors
in the adoption of equipment electricity by cotton producers and on the other hand
that the value of the effect of the adoption of electrical equipment on cotton
productivity is 2502 kg per ha. This gain in productivity suggests at the
microeconomic level that cotton producers who have not adopted electrical
equipment do so in the hope, all other things being equal, of an increase in their
productivity on average of 44.31% compared to their level current productivity.
The microeconomic policy implications of this study are the orientation of cotton
farmers towards equipment using electrical energy and the popularization of their
adoption, especially in areas of intense production for the increase in cotton
productivity in Benin.