2009
DOI: 10.4314/naj.v36i1.3202
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Application of a stockastic frontier production function to the measurement of technical efficiency in food crop production in Imo State, Nigeria

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“…This implies that many farm families take advantage of their large household sizes for increase in production and maximization of profits in their farming enterprise. Onyenweaku and Nwaru (2005), supported this finding Oluwasusi et al 225 that large household size eases labour constraints leading to increase in production. High proportion of the respondents (64.1%) belonged to a co-operative society.…”
Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of the Respondentssupporting
confidence: 76%
“…This implies that many farm families take advantage of their large household sizes for increase in production and maximization of profits in their farming enterprise. Onyenweaku and Nwaru (2005), supported this finding Oluwasusi et al 225 that large household size eases labour constraints leading to increase in production. High proportion of the respondents (64.1%) belonged to a co-operative society.…”
Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of the Respondentssupporting
confidence: 76%
“…Stabilisation policies to reduce inflation and subsidies in the form of cheap credit was suggested by Okoye (2006) to assist farmers in acquiring inputs. Onyenweaku and Nwaru (2005) opined the efficient utilisation of productive resources as ways of increasing productivity. This study examined productivity growth, its decomposition and rate of change in food crop production in Imo State in Nigeria.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The general decline in agricultural productivity has translated into gross incapacitation of the sector in meeting the rising food demand and by extension led to perennial for instance food shortages, soaring food prices and massive importation ( Imodu, 2005;Onyenweaku and Nwaru, 2005). Tanko et al (2006) averred that Nigeria's food deficient situation has been worsened by declining farm productivity owing to inefficient production techniques, poor resource base and declining soil productivity among others.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Survey reports in Nigeria show that production, marketing and utilization have expanded in the last decades beyond its traditional central and riverine areas (Agboola, 1979) to almost all ecological zones in the country (Teweet al, 2001). The crops are grown for both human and animal consumption (Onwueme, 1978;Onwueme and Sinha,1991;Onyenweaku and Nwaru, 2005). Household income is also supplemented by sales of the root tubers in local markets and to urban dwellers (Woolfe, 1992).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%