Crossover analysis of major cash crop production in West Africa: Post covid-19 pandemic in view
International Journal of Development Research
Crossover analysis of major cash crop production in West Africa: Post covid-19 pandemic in view
Received 28th April, 2020; Received in revised form 11th May, 2020; Accepted 26th June, 2020; Published online 30th July, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Adekola L. Olumide and Adekola T. Oladunni. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Food security and cash availability are some of the present major concerns of many countries of the world since the outbreak of the deadly Corona virus (COVID-19) disease. This study examines the production of major cash crops in the 16 West African countries from 1961 to 2018 using the Crossover Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) design with a view to examine the relationship between the level of production among the countries. Four variables were considered for this study namely the Area, Item, Unit and the Flag description. Six item levels comprising of major cash crops namely Cassava, Cocoa-beans, Coconuts, Groundnuts with shell, Oil Palm and Tobacco were considered. The ANOVA design shows that each of the variables is significant at different levels. Post hoc analysis of Turkey’s Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) for the significant variables was also carried out. Results obtained using the official data from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) show that Mauritania has the lowest area count of 174 with lowest mean, 3439 and standard deviation of 2675 while Nigeria has the highest counts of 928 with highest mean of 2106649 and standard deviation of 7363172.
