Technical efficiency in food crop production in Gombe State Nigeria

Amaza, P.S.; Olayemi, J. K.

doi:10.4314/naj.v32i1.49376

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“…The result shows that most of the farmers had between 31-50 years experience in farming which constitutes the highest proportion of the population. The higher the number of years spent in farming by a farmer, the more he becomes aware of new production techniques (Amaza and Olayemi, 2002). The finding also indicates that 13% of the respondents had less than N50,000 annual income, 31% had between N51,000 -N100,000, 35% had between N101,000 -N200,00, while 21% had N200,00 and above annual income in farming.…”

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“…The Federal Ministry of Agriculture (FMA) (1993) estimated that the annual supply of food crops (including rice) world have increased at an average annual rate of 5.9% to meet food demand, and reduce food importation significantly. Several studies have shown that aggregate rice production in Nigeria has been growing at an about 2.5% per annum in recent years (Olayemi, 1998;Akinbola, 2002;Amaza and Olayemi, 2002). But the annual rate of population growth has been high able to attain self-sufficiency in rice production despite increasing hectares put into production annually (CBN, 2002).…”

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Resource Use Efficiency in Rice Production in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria

Tijani¹,

Abubakar²,

Benisheik³

et al. 2010

Nig J Bas App Sci

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ABSTRACT:The study was carried-out on resource use efficiency in rice production in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Data were obtained using structured questionnaire. Five (5) wards were purposely selected out of the twelve (12) wards to reflect areas where rice is mainly grown. A total of 100 respondents were proportionately selected from the five (5) wards for the analysis. Descriptive statistics and production function were used as analytical tools. The result indicates that majority (87%) were male, most (54%) had farm size less than 2 hectares. Also, majority (60%) indicated their major occupation as farming, most (51%) had no formal education while, (37%) had between 11-30 years of farming experience. The results of resource use efficiency in rice production showed that resources such as fertilizer, hired labour and rented land were under-utilized. The sum of elasticities of production indicates that there is increasing return to scale. It was recommended that farmers should be advised to increase use of rented land, improved rice seed, of fertilizer, hired and mechanized labours and chemicals. Farmers should also be encouraged to actively participate in adult education extension programme to acquire knowledge on how to use their farm resources efficiently in rice production.

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Resource Use Efficiency in Rice Production in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria

Tijani¹,

Abubakar²,

Benisheik³

et al. 2010

Nig J Bas App Sci

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“…For the irrigated system of rice production land and seeds were optimally utilized while family labour, fertilizer and herbicides were under-utilized and hired labour was over-utilized. Other studies on technical efficiency (Amaza and Olayemi 1999;Amaza 2000;Idumah 2002;Kurkalova and Jensen 2000;Maurice 2004) have shown mean technical efficiencies of 0.69%, 70%, 89% (82% in Ukraine), 80% and 80% in Nigeria respectively.…”

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Resource Use Efficiency among Small - Scale Irrigated Maize Producers in Northern Taraba State of Nigeria

Gani

Omonona

2009

Journal of Human Ecology

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Inefficiency in the use of available scarce resources has been the bane on increased food production hence low income among the cream of farmers across the nation. The study examined resource use efficiency (with water as the key variable) in irrigated maize production in the Northern part of Taraba State. The study revealed that water was over-utilized in irrigated maize production in the area of study since it had an MVP of less than unity. Multistage stratified random and purposive random sampling techniques involving six wards and eighteen villages were used to select respondents. One hundred and twenty (120) questionnaires were administered on one hundred (120) irrigated maize growers. Only one hundred and seventeen (117) of the questionnaires were retrieved for analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, gross margin and net farm income analyses and production functions. Data were fitted to four functional forms based on the OLS techniques. The Cobb-Douglas (power function) production function gave the best fit. All the co-efficients except those of agro-chemical and education carried the expected positive signs. The specific objectives of the study were to determine resource use efficiency, describe socio-economic characteristics of irrigated maize growers, estimate cost and returns and identify constraints to irrigated maize production among respondents. The study revealed the cost and returns per hectare as N 55, 152.61 and N 105,937.50 respectively. About 73.1% variability in the dependent variable was accounted for by the independent variables. The result revealed that all the scarce resources were not used efficiently hence not to optimum economic advantage. This was attested to by the high ratios (greater than unity) of MVP/MFC for fertilizer, seeds, labour and land and low ratio (less than unity) for the key variable, water. For optimum resource allocation to water about 233% decrease in MVP was required while seeds, labour, fertilizer and land required 92.8%, 87.1%, 71.8% and 98.7% increase in MVP respectively. The estimate of elasticity of production summed up to 0.961 meaning decreasing return to scale. Irrigational facilities such as water pumps, sprinklers, pipes and relevant accessories should be made available to farmers to encourage them expand the scale of production thereby boosting increased food production

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“…Such studies include that of Udoh (2003), Okike (2006) and Amaza (2000). Udoh (2003) used the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the stochastic production function to examine the land management and resource use efficiency in South-Eastern Nigeria.…”

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“…The study found average economic efficiency of farmers are higher in the low-population -low Market domain; Northern Guinea Sudan Savanna ecological zones; and crop -based Mixed Farmers farming system. Also Amaza (2000) work on small scale farm size and resource use efficiency in Kwara state, opined that, one of the means of proper utilization of farm inputs for greater efficiency is through farm size adjustment. The result was collaborated by the mean cost efficiency of 1.161 obtained from the data analysis which shows that an average farm in the sample area is about 16% above the frontier cost, indicating that they are relatively efficient in allocating their scarce resources.…”

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Resource Use Efficiency of Yam Production in Ekiti State, Nigeria.

Toluwase¹,

Sekumade²

2017

ASSRJ

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The study examined the resource use efficiency of yam production in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling techniques were used to select 120 respondents and were interviewed using a well structured questionnaire. The study described the socioeconomic characteristics of the farmers; indentify the system of land ownership and the constraints that yam farmers faced; and analyze the technical efficiency of the farmers. Descriptive statistics such as; frequency counts, mean and percentage was used while the inferential statistics used to estimate technical efficiency was stochastic frontier function. The findings revealed that the study area is dominated by male, married, experienced and small holder farmers with almost secondary school level of education. The mean and maximum technical efficiency was 0.87 and 0.99 respectively thus showing a high level of how yam farmers are technically efficient in the study area. The study recommended that government should provide adequate extension and supportive services with a view to improving farming techniques with technological innovation and farm inputs should be made available at highly subsidized rates through adequate and efficient distribution to the farmers.

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Technical efficiency in food crop production in Gombe State Nigeria

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Resource Use Efficiency in Rice Production in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria

Resource Use Efficiency in Rice Production in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria

Resource Use Efficiency among Small - Scale Irrigated Maize Producers in Northern Taraba State of Nigeria

Resource Use Efficiency of Yam Production in Ekiti State, Nigeria.

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