There has been decrease in productivity of maize in recent time due to factors such as obsolete farm management practices, inadequate resource use fragile ecosystem, land tenure among others. Thus, this study examined technical efficiency among maize farmers in Oyo state, Nigeria. Primary data was collected through a multistage sampling procedure with stochastic frontier analysis as an analytical technique. Findings shows that there are more male 70.56%, majority are married (76.49%), 78.88% have either of primary, secondary and tertiary institutions with 34.4% of the farmers have access to credit. The mean farming experience is 7.11 years with 83.89% of the farmers having experience of (0-10 years), mean income of the farmers is x51512.22 and average farm size 19.12 heatares.
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