TY - JFULL AU - Alhaji M. H Conteh and Xiangbin Yan and Alfred V Gborie PY - 2013/9/ TI - Assessing the Effect of the Shift of Rural Labor towards Non-Agricultural Sectors on Rice Cultivation in the African Environment: Evidence from Sierra Leone T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 2454 EP - 2460 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/16634 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 80, 2013 N2 - The crop rice is the staple food of most Sierra Leone with no close substitute. However, its cultivation has been on its last legs over the years. The decline in the domestic rice cultivation has had vicious socio-economic implications such as hiking consumer prices, balance of payment dilemmas with debt burden. The objective of this study is thus, to assess the effect of the shift of rural labour towards non-agricultural sectors on rice cultivation. The tools utilized for analyzing the problem under consideration involved a thorough descriptive statistics and generalized linear model using OLS technique. Increased rural population was established positive and significant in affecting rice cultivation. Fertilizer utilization was insignificant in rice cultivation. For reducing the shift of rural labor force towards nonagricultural sectors, the government should make the agricultural sector very lucrative. ER -