Analysis of cost efficiency in food crop production among small-scale farmers in Adamawa state, Nigeria

Maurice, D. C.; Adamu, Y.; Joseph, M

doi:10.4314/gjass.v14i1.3

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“…The years of farming experience has a significant influence on the decision making of farmers with respect to risk aversion, adoption of improved agricultural technologies and other production related decisions. This finding is in line with [14] who reported that years of farming experience improve productivity and overall efficiency in food crop production in their study on analysis of technical inefficiency in food crop production systems among small-scale farmers in some selected local government areas of Adamawa State. This result also conformed to the result obtained by [15] who indicated 53% of the farmers have been producing for more than 20 years in Kaduna State.…”

Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of Rice Farmerssupporting

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Analysis of Rice Productivity among Beneficiaries of Anchor Borrowers Programme in Adamawa State, Nigeria: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Bitrus

Sulumbe

Ibrahim

2020

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Rice production in Nigeria has always been dominated by small scale farmers using traditional crude methods which are inefficient, resulting in low yield. Various measures have been taken by the government to improve rice production with the view of achieving self-sufficiency in rice production for consumption as well as export. Despite these measures, rice has not been sufficiently produced to meet the demand of the growing population in Adamawa State. So many problems might have contributed to this, which could be due to lack of adaptable rice varieties and low level of productivity of resources used by the rice farmers among others. Recently, the federal government introduced the anchor borrowers programme (ABP) with the goal of helping rice farmers to achieve desired output using improved production resources. This paper examined rice productivity and factors affecting rice farmers’ productivity among beneficiaries of anchor borrowers programme in Adamawa State, Nigeria. A multistage random sampling procedure was used in selecting the respondents. A structured questionnaire is administered to 139 farmers spread across 3 Local Government Areas to obtain information on farmer’s socio-economic variables, inputs used and output obtained in rice production. The objectives were analyzed using descriptive statistics, data envelopment analysis and OLS regression. The DEA result for level of productivity revealed that the average technical efficiency of 0.71, a minimum of 0.02 and a maximum of 1.0, indicating that the inefficient farmers could decrease their levels of input usage by 29% to produce the same levels of outputs to be at the same level with the frontier farmers. The results showed that the double log functional form gave the best line of fit. R2 value was about 86% and statistically significant at 1% level. Seed (0.882), family labour (0.712), hired labour (0.109), herbicide (0.548), fertilizer (0.200) and land (0.211) were positively and significantly related to productivity at different probability levels. Based on the findings, the study concluded that the mean technical efficiency (productivity) score was 0.71 indicating a high level of productivity. The study also found that all the production factors used by rice farmers among anchor borrower’s beneficiaries had a positive influence on the productivity levels of the rice farmers. Hence, productivity among rice farmers depends largely on their production factors.

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Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of Rice Farmerssupporting

confidence: 89%

Analysis of Rice Productivity among Beneficiaries of Anchor Borrowers Programme in Adamawa State, Nigeria: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

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Sulumbe

Ibrahim

2020

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“…The inefficiency models revealed that socio economic variables, namely: family size, farming experience, gender and extension contact has significantly reduce cost inefficiency among the farmers. Maurice et al (2015) employed stochastic frontier cost function to analyze and determine the cost efficiency in food crop production among small-scale farmers in Adamawa State, Nigeria. The result of the maximum likelihood estimates of the stochastic frontier cost function revealed that the explanatory variables: extension contact, crop diversification and credit availability were significantly and positively related to the cost efficiency in the study area.…”

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Analysis of cost efficiency of rainfed maize production in Yola North and Yola South Local Government Areas of Adamawa State, Nigeria

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Tashikalma²,

Maurice³

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Global Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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This study analyzed the allocative (cost) efficiency of rainfed maize production in Yola North and Yola South Local Government Areas of Adamawa State, Nigeria. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 128 respondents. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and stochastic frontier cost function model. Results revealed that the respondents had a mean age of 39 years and have large household sizes. The sampled farmers are experienced and cultivated an average of about two hectares of land. The respondents had also acquired one form of formal education or the other with primary school as the least. The results of the maximum likelihood estimate parameters of the stochastic frontier cost function revealed that cost of land and cost of seeds, cost of hired labour and cost of agrochemicals were significant at different level of probabilities. The allocative efficiency indices revealed that allocative efficiency of the sampled farmers ranged from 0.44 to 0.98 with a mean of 0.68, implying that an average farmer in the study area has the scope for increasing cost efficiency by 32% given the existing technology. The study recommends provision of adequate farm inputs and essential services at low cost to rainfed maize farmers.

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“…In a study in Adamawa State of Nigeria Maurice et al . () found technical efficiency to average 66% among food‐producing small‐scale farmers. They identified 11 cropping systems which included mixed cropping.…”

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“…It is measured as a ratio of actual to potential output (Donkoh et al, 2013). This is the ratio of the farm's actual output to its maximum frontier output for a given level of inputs and chosen technology (Maurice et al, 2015). An efficient producer is one who produces the maximum possible (potential) output given a set of inputs or one who uses the least inputs in producing a given output.…”

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Technical Efficiency of Rainfed and Irrigated Rice Production in Tanzania

Mkanthama

Makombe

Kihoro³

et al. 2017

Irrigation and Drainage

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Tanzania produces rice from two major ecologies, namely irrigated and rainfed lowland. Currently most of the rice is produced from the rainfed lowland but the country's National Rice Development Strategy (NRDS) hopes to reverse this trend. The NRDS aims to increase the rice production area for irrigated lowland ecology from 200 000 ha in 2008 to 390 000 ha by 2018, with productivity increasing from 2.13 t ha−1 in 2008 to 3.5 t ha−1 in 2018. This study evaluated the performance of irrigated and rainfed lowland rice production using technical efficiency. This paper estimates the technical efficiency of rice production in Tanzania for the irrigated and rainfed lowland ecologies. Data were collected from an irrigated site in Bagamoyo and a lowland rainfed site, Dakawa in the Morogoro area. The study found that the average technical efficiency of the irrigating farmers is 96% compared to an average 39% for the rainfed lowland system. For the irrigated system, there are no farmers with technical efficiency less than 80%. This high technical efficiency indicates that in order to achieve the rice production targets aspired to, the opportunity for increasing production therefore lies in changing the production technology. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Analysis of cost efficiency in food crop production among small-scale farmers in Adamawa state, Nigeria

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Analysis of Rice Productivity among Beneficiaries of Anchor Borrowers Programme in Adamawa State, Nigeria: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Analysis of Rice Productivity among Beneficiaries of Anchor Borrowers Programme in Adamawa State, Nigeria: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Analysis of cost efficiency of rainfed maize production in Yola North and Yola South Local Government Areas of Adamawa State, Nigeria

Technical Efficiency of Rainfed and Irrigated Rice Production in Tanzania

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