Profit Efficiency Analysis of Cassava Production in Enugu State, Nigeria

Okorie, Oguejiofor; Okon, Ubokudom E.; Enete, Anselm A.

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“…Skill is a well-established habit of performing tasks in a manner acceptable by workers in a profession. Okorie (2000), conceived skills as those special abilities required by learners to perform human activities. Skills which are needed to plan, establish and successfully run an enterprise using human and material resources are known as entrepreneurship skills.…”

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“…About 250 million people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) derive their daily calories or energy from cassava, the leaves are consumed as vegetables (Oladoyin et al, 2022). It is forecasted that by 2025, close to 62% of global cassava production will come from sub-Saharan Africa (Okorie et al, 2021). Cassava has many uses and this made the crop a potential and major foreign exchange earner in Nigeria.…”

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Determinants of Output of Cassava (Manihot Species) Production in Abuja, Nigeria

2022

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This research study focused on determinants of the output of cassava (Manihot species) production in Abuja, Nigeria. Multi-stage method of sampling was used. One hundred (100) cassava farmers were sampled and selected. Primary data were obtained through the use of a well-designed and also well-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using econometrics and statistical tools. The results show that 87% of cassava producers were between 31 to 50 years of age. About 72% had formal education and were literate. Averagely, they had 4.76 hectares of cassava farmland. The estimated gross margin (GM) and net farm income (NFI) of cassava production per hectare were 1,464, 162.72 Naira and 1, 453, 752.49 Naira respectively. This implies that cassava production was profitable and worthwhile. Farm size and fertilizer input were statistically significant factors influencing the output of cassava production. Age, labour input, and cassava cuttings were statistically significant factors influencing the output of cassava production. While chemical input statistically and significantly influenced the output of cassava production. The constraints facing cassava producers were the unavailability of improved cassava cuttings, the high cost of farm inputs, insecurity, inadequate extension services, and inadequate finances. The research study recommends that improved cassava cuttings should be made available to farmers for increased productivity. Extension officers should be employed to disseminate innovations, research findings, and new farm technologies to cassava farmers. Credit or loan facilities should be made available to cassava producers at low-interest rates.

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“…Despite a key role that cassava plays in guaranteeing household food security in Nigeria, the potential of smallholder cassava farmers to address food insecurity are often constrained by of inadequate access to production resources, low adoption and use of improved technologies, climate variability, poor agronomic practices, inefficient use of production resources and low productivity (Okorie et al, 2021). The need to raise efficiency and output of small farmers in rural areas is therefore sine-quanon to economic growth and attainment of zero hunger because it considers the extent to which output could be increased with limited scarce production resources (Bradshaw, 2006;Audu et al, 2013).…”

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“…Several studies in Nigeria had analysed the technical efficiency of agricultural products, other than cassava (Ajibefun, 2008;Orewa and Izekor, 2010;Alabi et al, 2010;Usman et al, 2012;Akhilomen et al, 2015). Other studies have analysed efficiency of cassava farmers (Oladejo and Oluwaranti, 2014;Audu et al, 2013;Eze and Nwibo, 2013;Okebiorun et al, 2018;Okorie et al, 2021) to explain why some farmers are more efficient than others. A few studies have analysed dynamics in technical efficiency in agricultural production of some other crops outside Africa (Thakur et al, 2014;Pilo, 2019;Ionescu, 2022;Nirere, 2022).…”

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Technical Efficiency Dynamics in Smallholding Cassava-Based Farming in Rural Nigeria

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Dynamics of production efficiency is a key factor in assessing resource-use patterns and production growth. Raising technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in rural areas would not only increase their income but also stimulate the rest of the economy. This study therefore assessed movement of smallholder farmers in and out of technical efficiency regime over time in Nigeria. Panel data from Living Standard Measurement Survey was analysed using stochastic production frontier model, Markov chain and multinomial logit model. Farm size, labour, cassava cuttings and the use of pesticides, significantly influenced the productivity of cassava production while age squared, household size, no access to extension services and membership of a cooperative society reduced the efficiency of the farming households. A higher percentage (64.83%) of cassava farms under mono-cropping system were efficient in 2010/2011, while a large proportion of about 92.91% were inefficient in 2015/2016. Further, the rate of entry into technical inefficiency (31.32%) was more than the rate of exit from technical inefficiency (14.89%). Transition into technical inefficiency was explained by age, age squared, farm size, gender, household size, marital status, secondary school education and farming systems. In the long run, the probability that rural cassava farmers will be technically efficient was higher than that of being technically inefficient in the future.

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Profit Efficiency Analysis of Cassava Production in Enugu State, Nigeria

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Determinants of Output of Cassava (Manihot Species) Production in Abuja, Nigeria

Technical Efficiency Dynamics in Smallholding Cassava-Based Farming in Rural Nigeria

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