Technical Efficiency and Profitability of Cassava Production in Delta State: A Stochastic Frontier Production Function Analysis
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2021
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The study empirically examines the production efficiency of cassava farmers in Delta State, Nigeria, usingstochastic frontier analysis. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 120 farmers. The result showedthat 68.3% of cassava farmers fell within the age range of 40-59 years, majority (63.3%) of them were females,69.2% had formal education, 51.7% had 6-10 years farming experience, 62.5% had household size of 6-10 persons,70% did not belong to cooperative society, 88.3% of them had farm size between 0.1-0.9 ha, 76.7% did not haveaccess to credit and 74.2% also did not have extension contact. A mean technical efficiency of 67% was recorded.The results imply that the average efficiency of cassava production could be improved by 33% through better useof existing resources and technology. The result showed that the return to scale was 1.306.The gamma coefficientwas 0.86, implying that 86% of variation of cassava output from the production frontier was accounted by thetechnical inefficiency of the farmers. The major factors which influenced the farmers technical efficiency werefarm size, planting material and capital while farming experience, level of education, access to credit, gender, ageof farmer and household size exerted a significant effect on their inefficiency level. The major problems faced bythe farmers were inadequate finance, inaccessibility to credit, inadequate access to improved varieties and highcost of inputs. The study deduced that the gross margin and net farm incomes were N155,726.34 a andN147,464.84 with BCR of N2.38, suggesting that cassava production is profitable. It is recommended that morefarmers should venture into cassava production as a means of wealth creation and employment generation.
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Profitability, Cassava production, technical efficiency, smallholder farmers, stochastic frontier model
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