Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia

Adane, Zewdie; Shiferaw, Kaleb; Gebremedhin, Berhanu

doi:10.5897/ajar2015.10533

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“…According to this result, an increase in one year of schooling of household contributed to decrease household inefficiency by 0.9% at 5% significance level. This results agrees with other works including Mosisa (2014) and Adane et al(2016) who found positive and significant contribution of education to technical efficiency in milk production. Distance to veterinary clinic: It is the closeness of the households homestead to the veterinary clinic measured in kilometers.…”

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Sources of Technical Inefficiency of Smallholder Cow Milk Producers in Yabelo District of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

2020

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This study measures the level of technical efficiency of smallholder cow milk producers using stochastic production approach of Cobb-Douglas production form and identified the possible cause for inefficiency in cow milk production using Tobit regression model. The data collected from 177 sample household randomly selected from pastoral and agropastoral Kebeles of Yabelo district. The result indicated the mean technical efficiency of cow milk producers of 71.42%. This means if producers are producing in fully efficient way, they can save on average 28.56% of their current input to produce their current output or increase their current milk output by 28.56% without additional inputs requirement. The gamma parameter, ℽ, was found to be 0.70 showing 70% of the deviation of actual output from potential output was due to technical inefficiency. Among the five inputs used, milk output was positively and significantly the function of labor, grazing land, and hay forage. The result of Tobit regression model shows that family size, size of livestock holding, extension contact, distance to veterinary clinic, distance to water positively and significantly contributed to inefficiency while age and education level of household head negatively and significantly affecting inefficiency of milk producers. Evidently intervention on access to water source, veterinary clinic, education, family planning and productivity oriented livestock holding will improve technical efficiency of cow milk producer of the study area.

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Sources of Technical Inefficiency of Smallholder Cow Milk Producers in Yabelo District of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

2020

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“…Households with access to land had a decreased odds of being food insecure compared to households without access to land. Yami et al (2013) advanced the implications of arable land access on food security status in Ethiopia and indicated that access to land was a major factor for food security taking into cognizance the farm size. They asserted that peasant households have to maximize production from accessible resources to meet the food requirements of their participants and to accumulate household assets through the minimal sale of surplus produce.…”

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Does Women’s Empowerment Matter for Household Food Security? Evidence From Northern Ghana

Essilfie,

Sebu,

Baako-Amponsah

2024

Sage Open

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The study seeks to analyze the effect of women’s empowerment on household food security in northern Ghana. Employing Random Effect and Generalized Estimating Equations on the two rounds of Feed the Future dataset, 2012 and 2015, the study measured women empowerment as the comparative years of schooling and decision making by women. Multivariate Decomposition was used to explain whether variations in food insecurity between gendered household types are due to differences in explained and/or unexplained variations. The study showed significant differences in food insecurity levels between male and female headed households. The finding revealed that improving women decision making at the household level will reduce food insecurity by 45%. The study therefore recommends that Ministry of Gender, Children and Social protection should educate male partners on the need for women’s decision making and also ensure the establishment of social groups for women.

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“…2 variables are considered as important at the moment of the model determination: cows [18], labor force [18][19][20], lactating cows and grazing land available [19].…”

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Technical Effiency in Ecuador’ Farms: Evidences of the Pandemic Impact

Inga¹,

Aguirre²,

Guevara-Viera³

et al. 2023

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The main point in the present article was the comparison of the Technical Efficiency (TE) in four years for milk production in Ecuador by the period 2018 – 2021, before and after the pandemic, and the determination of the factors related to the TE for the last year. The information from the official public database in the country were analyzed by the nonparametric technique called DEA including a bootstrap simulation. Once different variables were selected including aspects as livestock and labor, the TE with Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) with “output” orientation was calculated by each year and province. Among the provinces, statistically significant differences were found (P<0.1) for the TE means, and most of the efficient units were found throughout the Andean zone, in each year. Between the most important findings, it was important that the TE average after the beginning of the pandemic was statistically lower than the last 3 consecutive years under study (P<0.1) with 3% approximately of decrease, and the main factors related to this were multiple including labor characteristics, the field composition, and the supplies access during the pandemic. Finally, some implications for public policy were found around the gender in agriculture activities, the social security, and the difficulties in supplies access.

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Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Sources of Technical Inefficiency of Smallholder Cow Milk Producers in Yabelo District of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Sources of Technical Inefficiency of Smallholder Cow Milk Producers in Yabelo District of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Does Women’s Empowerment Matter for Household Food Security? Evidence From Northern Ghana

Technical Effiency in Ecuador’ Farms: Evidences of the Pandemic Impact

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