Technical efficiency of rice farmers in Anambra State value chain development programme

  • Obianefo C
  • Nwigwe C
  • Meludu T
  • et al.
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Abstract

The study is aimed at determining the technical efficiency of rice farmers in Anambra State value chain development programme. A well-structured questionnaire was administered to elicit information from 372 rice farmers from the five participating Local Government Areas (Ayamelum, Awka North, Anambra West, Anambra East, and Orumba North) after which only 337 respondents were fit for the study. Cobb Douglas stochastic frontier model was used to ascertain the frontier line of the farmer's production potentials. The determinant of technical inefficiency was sex and farming experience. The findings revealed that the gamma value (0.0315) captures the variation in technical efficiency by farmers, therefore, about 3.15% variation is observed and frontier output is due to rice farmer's technical inefficiency effect. The study equally showed that the mean technical efficiency as predicted in the study was 84.76% implying that the farmers are operating 15.24% below their optimum production capacity. These, therefore, justify the need for policymakers to constantly organize training and sensitization workshops for the rice farmers in Anambra State and Nigeria at large paying particular attention to women farmers and the general farmer's farming experience which will help to tailor down training to specific needs. PU - Academic Journals PA - Lagos

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Obianefo, C. A., Nwigwe, C. A., Meludu, T. N., & Anyasie, I. C. (2020). Technical efficiency of rice farmers in Anambra State value chain development programme. Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, 12(2), 67–74. https://doi.org/10.5897/jdae2020.1150

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