Resource Use Efficiency in Organic Vegetable Production: A Case Study of Manzini Region, Swaziland

F, Dumsile Dlamini; Kongolo, Mukole

doi:10.5296/jas.v2i2.5958

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“…Policies geared towards improving agricultural productivity should, therefore, target the youth. This finding support sprevious evidence by Dlamini and Kongolo (2014) that age influences the ability of farmers to adopt new technology for efficiency gains.…”

Section: Allocative Efficiency Estimatessupporting

confidence: 86%

“…This study used the Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function to represent the production technology of vegetable farmers in the Metropolis. This functional form is still very relevant due to the logarithmic nature which makes an econometric estimation of the parameters easy (Murthy, 2002) and recent studies on efficiency favoured its use (Dlamini and Kongolo, 2014;Abdulai and Tewari, 2016;Ullah et al, 2017). However, limitations associated with its use such as the assumptions of unitary elasticity of substitution and constant returns to scale and input elasticity remain (Yin, 2000).The translog functional form which is widely used as an alternative to the Cobb-Douglas in the literature is also without limitations.…”

Section: Analytical Framework and Empirical Specificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This shows that labour is a critical factor in the production process as it impacts on profitability level of farm enterprises. Dlamini and Kongolo (2014) analysed the efficient use of resources in organic vegetable production to show that the use of inputs has decreasing returns to scale. The study revealed that land, labour, organic manure, seeds, soil preparation, age, educational level, and legal status of the farm are significant factors that affect organic vegetable production.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The study gives insights on production performance of one of Bihar’s most important vegetable, the cauliflower. Compound annual growth in area, production and productivity of cauliflower were analyzed to investigate the expansion or shrinkage of the cauliflower in Samastipur district of Bihar as well as for the entire state. In this investigation, resource use efficiency of the respondent farmers were also calculated to know whether the farmers are operating technically, allocatively or cost effectively or not in production of cauliflower in the study area. Significant positive growth in area, production and productivity of cauliflower in Bihar was observed during the period of investigation. The growth in area, production and productivity of cauliflower exhibited almost similar trend in case of Samastipur district. The analysis of resource use efficiency of cauliflower production revealed that the mean level of technical, allocative and cost efficiencies of all the sample respondents were estimated at 0.67, 0.61 and 0.41 which implied that the cauliflower growers could decrease the current input by 33.00%, reduce the cost of production of cauliflower by 39.00% for which they would have to be more aware of relative input prices prevailing in the market, while deciding upon quantum of various inputs, and reduce the current cost of the produce by 59.00% to achieve a potential minimum cost of production relative to the efficient farmers given current level of output. In this way the efficiency scores suggest that there is a considerable scope for decreasing inputs and thereby reducing the cost of production in cauliflower cultivation in the study area. The study pointed out that the farmers in the study area were not properly aware about the package of practices of cultivation of cauliflower and under or over utilizing the resources of productivity causing gap in output of the crop. Proper farmer's field trials and awareness campaigns on improved practices and correct method of use of inputs need to be imparted which will ultimately benefit the producers.

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Resource Use Efficiency in Organic Vegetable Production: A Case Study of Manzini Region, Swaziland

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References 15 publications

Technical and Resource Use Efficiency of Urban Vegetable Farming in the Kumasi Metropolis: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Technical and Resource Use Efficiency of Urban Vegetable Farming in the Kumasi Metropolis: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Efficiency of Small-scale Irrigation Farmers in Northern Ghana: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Growth Performance and Resource Use Efficiency in Cauliflower Production: A Micro level Study

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