Analysis of Economic Efficiency of Nigerian Small Scale Farmers: A Parametric Frontier Approach

Asogwa, Benjamin C.; Umeh, Joseph Chinedu; Penda, Simon T.

doi:10.1080/09765239.2011.11884940

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“…The result implies that an increase in farming experience of the male cat fish farmers will reduce the technical inefficiency of the farmers. This result is in consonance with the finding of Asogwa et al (2011) who obtained similar results in their study. The positive coefficients of farming experience for the male and female catfish farmers were against a priori expectation and a plausible explanation for this is that as the farming experience of the catfish farmers increases, there is tendency for them to become conservative and get to use the old but less productive farm management practises for catfish farming.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…This indicates that an increase in labour will lead to an increase in output of catfish harvested. This finding disagrees with Asogwa et al (2011) who found that labour had a negative influence on the output. The estimated coefficients for fingerling (X 3 ) were positive for both male and female catfish farmers and significant at 1% probability level for only the female catfish farmers.…”

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confidence: 56%

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Technical Efficiency of Catfish Farming in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria: a Gender Perspective

Oyinbo

Murtala

Falola

et al. 2016

Agricultura Tropica Et Subtropica

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This research was undertaken to examine the gender perspective of the technical efficiency of catfish farming in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. Primary data elicited from a sample size of 70 catfish farmers (38 male and 32 female catfish farmers) were employed in the study. Analysis of the data was done using descriptive statistics and stochastic frontier production function. The maximum likelihood estimates of the stochastic frontier production function revealed that the mean technical efficiency of the male catfish farmers (86%) was higher than that of the female catfish famers (20%) and this implies that the male and female catfish farmers have the scope of improving their efficiency by 14% and 80%, respectively, through the use of farming practices used by the most efficient male and female catfish farmers. The factors that were significant in influencing the technical efficiency of the female catfish farmers were farming experience and credit while in the case of the male catfish farmers, farming experience significantly influenced their technical efficiency. In the light of the low technical efficiency of the female catfish farmers relative to the male catfish farmers, it was recommended that gender equality infishery training, extension delivery, distribution of resources and access to supportive services should be encouraged in a bid to improve the technical efficiency of the catfish farmers especially that of the female catfish farmers.

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Technical Efficiency of Catfish Farming in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria: a Gender Perspective

Oyinbo

Murtala

Falola

et al. 2016

Agricultura Tropica Et Subtropica

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“…Contact with extension services provided more access information on market opportunities and interventions, improved agricultural techniques, improved inputs, subsidized farm inputs and other production incentives. These would have a positive relationship on farmers' outputs and their income-generating activities, thereby increasing livelihood diversifications and reducing their poverty level [33]. Poverty incidence will be probably reduced by 26.2 percent and 25.1 percent for male-headed households and the total sample respectively if there is access to extension services.…”

Section: Logistic Regression Of the Determinants Of Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Poverty incidence will be probably reduced by 26.2 percent and 25.1 percent for male-headed households and the total sample respectively if there is access to extension services. Supportively, the availability of extension services and membership of extension related organizations improved farmers' productivity and profitability and hence poverty reduction [33].…”

Section: Logistic Regression Of the Determinants Of Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

Poverty and Income Inequality in Rural Agrarian Household of Southwestern Nigeria: The Gender Perspective

Ogundipe¹,

Adebayo²,

Olagunju³

et al. 2019

TOASJ

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Introduction: Poverty is a common phenomenon in the world today, with a vast dominance in Africa, with Nigeria not exempted. This paper analyzes gender perspective of income inequality and poverty among sample of rural households in Southwest, Nigeria. Gini coefficient, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) and Logistic regression model was used to assess the objective of the study. Methods: The poverty line stands at N15271.83 ($76.74), with more than half (53.71%) of the male population considered poor while the female poor population stood at 47.22%. However, the study found that income inequality was lower among the male respondents than the female counterparts. A number of explanatory variables were considered, the following - educational years, household size, farming experience, market distance, extension access, credit access and member of social group represent important poverty drivers in the study area. Results and Conclusion The study therefore suggests that reducing the number of dependent household members and ensuring ready availability and equal access to institutional facilities, basic amenities, credit facilities, and human capital development of rural households are some measures that could curb the menace of poverty.

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“…Furthermore, farmers who are members of extension-related organizations exhibit higher levels of efficiency. For instance, Asongwa et al (2011) in the analysis of the efficiency of Nigerian small-scale farmers in Benue State, Nigeria observed that a marginal increase in access to extension contact of households resulted in 22.23% decline in technical inefficiency among the respondents. In some cases extension agent are also the channels of input supply to rural farmers.…”

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Measurement of Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in Cotton Production in North-West, Nigeria.

Babangida¹,

Yusuf²,

Ugbabe³

2017

Book of Abstracts International Conference on Economics and Development

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This study was designed to measure the technical efficiency and its determinants in cotton production in North West, Nigeria. The study used primary data generated during the 2013/2014 cotton production season. Data were collected through the use of structured questionnaire administered to 355 cotton farmers. The data were analyzed using stochastic frontier production model. Multi stage purposive sampling technique was used to select the States, the Agricultural Development Project zones, the Local Governments and the villages, while random sampling was used to select the respondents from which input-output data were collected. The result of the overall elasticities of production which give the level of return to scale derived from the Cobb-Douglas equation was 0.68. The result of the study further shows that 30% of the farmers had technical efficiency of 0.81 and above while 70% of the farmers operate at less than 0.8 efficiency level. The farmers with the best and least practice had a technical efficiency of 0.99 and 0.10, while the average technical efficiency index was 0.65 respectively. This implies that on the average, output fall by 35% from the maximum possible level due to inefficiency. The result of the determinants of technical inefficiency shows that the coefficients for age and farming experience were significant at 1%.level of probability, while educational level, household size and marital status were negative and not significant.

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Analysis of Economic Efficiency of Nigerian Small Scale Farmers: A Parametric Frontier Approach

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Technical Efficiency of Catfish Farming in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria: a Gender Perspective

Technical Efficiency of Catfish Farming in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria: a Gender Perspective

Poverty and Income Inequality in Rural Agrarian Household of Southwestern Nigeria: The Gender Perspective

Measurement of Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in Cotton Production in North-West, Nigeria.

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