Drivers of Technical Efficiency in Cassava Processing in Nigeria: Implications for a Commercializing Food Sector
Most agriculture policies in Nigeria are aimed at integrating the rural poor into market economy. In the last decade, Nigeria witnessed significant private and public injection of capital into the promotion of small-medium scale cassava processing. This study uses a stochastic frontier function and...
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| description | Most agriculture policies in Nigeria are aimed at integrating the rural poor into market economy. In the last decade, Nigeria witnessed significant private and public injection of capital into the promotion of small-medium scale cassava processing. This study uses a stochastic frontier function and inputs/outputs data to measure technical efficiencies (TE) of 274 small-medium cassava processing firms in Nigeria. Results showed that the cassava processing enterprises had a mean TE of 43 percent, indicating that, a large proportion of output value (57%) is lost due to firm-specific inefficiencies. Cassava processing enterprises in the north-central area of Nigeria recorded a mean TE of 61% (highest), followed by South-east/South-west (42%) and South-south (26%). TE values were below 80% for about 85% percent of the sampled enterprises. Technical efficiencies were influenced by enterprise classification (small-medium, sole proprietorship or family ownership), social factors (interaction with other actors), economic (number of products, clients or orders received) and attendance of training workshop. It is recommended that government and institutions with statutory role to promote agricultural value chains should consider encouraging and promoting small-medium scale cassava processing the more with adequate impetus. Constant training workshops to improve the skills and efficiency of the cassava processors are also recommended. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8f6d116fe51446b831e69a90d9539592022-12-21T17:59:30ZengPresses Agronomiques de GemblouxTropicultura0771-33122295-80102019-06-0137210.25518/2295-8010.573Drivers of Technical Efficiency in Cassava Processing in Nigeria: Implications for a Commercializing Food SectorA. Abass0L.Olarinde1V. Okoruwa2P. Amaza3W. Awoyale4T. Alabi5M. Ndavi6Post-harvest Technology, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Regional Hub for Eastern Africa, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaAgricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, PMB 4000 Ogbomoso, Nigeria. Email: loolarinde@lautech.edu.ngAgricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, NigeriaAgricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Jos, Jos, NigeriaFood Technology, Department of Food, Agriculture and Bioengineering, Kwara State University, Malete, Ilorin, Kwara State, NigeriaGeographic Information Systems, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Oyo Road, Ibadan, NigeriaAgricultural Economics, Programme Management Department, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome, ItalyMost agriculture policies in Nigeria are aimed at integrating the rural poor into market economy. In the last decade, Nigeria witnessed significant private and public injection of capital into the promotion of small-medium scale cassava processing. This study uses a stochastic frontier function and inputs/outputs data to measure technical efficiencies (TE) of 274 small-medium cassava processing firms in Nigeria. Results showed that the cassava processing enterprises had a mean TE of 43 percent, indicating that, a large proportion of output value (57%) is lost due to firm-specific inefficiencies. Cassava processing enterprises in the north-central area of Nigeria recorded a mean TE of 61% (highest), followed by South-east/South-west (42%) and South-south (26%). TE values were below 80% for about 85% percent of the sampled enterprises. Technical efficiencies were influenced by enterprise classification (small-medium, sole proprietorship or family ownership), social factors (interaction with other actors), economic (number of products, clients or orders received) and attendance of training workshop. It is recommended that government and institutions with statutory role to promote agricultural value chains should consider encouraging and promoting small-medium scale cassava processing the more with adequate impetus. Constant training workshops to improve the skills and efficiency of the cassava processors are also recommended.https://popups.uliege.be/2295-8010/index.php?id=573cassava processingefficiencynormal/halfnormal distributionproducts value chainNigeria |
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| title | Drivers of Technical Efficiency in Cassava Processing in Nigeria: Implications for a Commercializing Food Sector |
| title_full | Drivers of Technical Efficiency in Cassava Processing in Nigeria: Implications for a Commercializing Food Sector |
| title_fullStr | Drivers of Technical Efficiency in Cassava Processing in Nigeria: Implications for a Commercializing Food Sector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drivers of Technical Efficiency in Cassava Processing in Nigeria: Implications for a Commercializing Food Sector |
| title_short | Drivers of Technical Efficiency in Cassava Processing in Nigeria: Implications for a Commercializing Food Sector |
| title_sort | drivers of technical efficiency in cassava processing in nigeria implications for a commercializing food sector |
| topic | cassava processing efficiency normal/half normal distribution products value chain Nigeria |
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