Relative Efficiency of Fadama Farmers in Southwest Nigeria: An Application of Profit Function Techniques
The study examines efficiency of small -scale fadama farmers in Southwest Nigeria. Attempts were also made at examining the relative efficiency of the irrigated system with respect to gender. Data used for the analysis were obtained from 212 farmers (145 men and 67 women) practising fadama farming t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Agricultural Extension |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.aesonnigeria.org/index.php/jae/article/view/281 |
| Summary: | The study examines efficiency of small -scale fadama farmers in Southwest Nigeria. Attempts
were also made at examining the relative efficiency of the irrigated system with respect to
gender. Data used for the analysis were obtained from 212 farmers (145 men and 67
women) practising fadama farming through a multistage sampling procedure.
Results from the study show that over half of the farmers (51%) have formal education, 32%
have mom than five years fadama farming experience, 46% purchase land for farming while
9% have farm plots exceeding 0.8 hectares. The normalised profit function, shows that the
co- efficient for seeds (as) agrochemicals (as) water (aw) fixed (/3K) and farmland (A,,,) were
significant (Ps 0.01). The study establishes that both male and female farmers have equal
allocative efficiency but differ in technical and price efficiency. The study concludes that
women are however more disadvantaged than men in terms of ownership and acquisition
inputs used for fadama farming. |
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| ISSN: | 1119-944X 2408-6851 |