Productivity and production efficiency among small scale irrigated sugarcane farmers in Niger state, Nigeria: a stochastic translog frontier function approach.

Ojo, MA; Mohammed, Usman; Ojo, AO; Baba, Keisuke; Anjorin, ST

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“…However, the negative sign suggest inefficiency in the use of labour resource in production by the farmers. Similarly, Ojo and Imoudu (2000) found in their study that labour input was significant at 5% in oil palm farms but has a negative coefficient in the non-settlement farms production. However, the sum of elasticities of the production factors is 0.71, indicating a decreasing return to scale in sole cowpea production.…”

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Technical Efficiency of Sole Cowpea Production in Adamawa State, Nigeria

Jonathan¹,

Joseph²,

Idenyi³

et al. 2022

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The study determined the technical efficiency of sole cowpea production in Northern Agricultural Zone of Adamawa State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from 180 sole cowpea producers selected by a multi-stage random sampling procedure, using structured questionnaire. The Data was subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics. Results revealed that, males dominated (81.11%) cowpea production in the area. The average age of the respondents was 46.52 and are mostly married with average family size of 8 persons. Also 88.33% used their personal savings to finance cowpea production and about. Farm size, family labour, hired labour and agro-chemicals were significantly related with cowpea output at 1% and 5% levels. Farming experience, extension contact, family size and credit availability enhance the efficiency of the respondents. Substantial variation existed in the TE indices of farmers with mean technical efficiency (TE) of 0.80 and minimum and maximum indices of 0.43 and 0.97, respectively. Farmers in the study area were relatively efficient in the production of sole cowpea. Inputs such as agrochemicals, farm land, improved seeds, labour as well as credit should be made available to farmers timely and at subsidized rates by government and non-governmental organizations.

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confidence: 71%