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2013(Vol.5, Issue:3)
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Technical and Economic Efficiency of Palm Oil Marketing in the Niger Delta Region of Southern Nigeria

Nkasiobi Silas Oguzor
Corresponding Author:  Nkasiobi Silas Oguzor 
Submitted: Dec 08, 2010
Accepted: May 18, 2011
Published: September 20, 2013
Abstract:
This study examined the structural performance and productive efficiency of palm oil marketing in some selected States in Southern Nigeria. Eighty districts were selected in the Niger Delta Area and data were collected from 1000 palm oil sellers randomly selected in these towns. The tools of analysis were marketing margin, Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient to measure the structural performance while the productive efficiency was measured with the use of the production function analysis using the OLS multiple regression analysis to estimate the parameters of the production function equations. All these phenomena portend a high poor structural performance in the system. The productive efficiency measurement showed that palm oil marketing was in stage one of the production surface in the area and this implies inefficient allocation and utilization of resources. Therefore palm oil marketing in the study is though profitable was grossly inefficient from the view point of market structure and productive efficiency analysis.

Key words:  Efficiency, marketing, Nigeria, palm oil, , ,
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Nkasiobi Silas Oguzor, . Technical and Economic Efficiency of Palm Oil Marketing in the Niger Delta Region of Southern Nigeria. Current Research Journal of Economic Theory, (3): 38-43.
ISSN (Online):  2042-485X
ISSN (Print):   2042-4841
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