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PROFIT EFFICIENCY AMONG SESAME FARMERS IN NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA
Ater, P.I and Abah .D.
Corresponding Author: G.A. Abu
Submitted: 2011 July, 13
Accepted: April 23, 2012
Published: July 30, 2012 |
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The study was carried out in Nasarawa State. The study analyzed Productive efficiency among sesame
farmers in Nasarawa State of Nigeria. The constraint to sesame production was determine and the Cobb-Douglas
stochastic frontiers production analysis was applied to determine the technical, allocative and economic efficiency
among sesame farmers in Nasarawa State. A purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from 194
sesame farmers. The analysis of technical efficiency revealed that farm size and chemical were not significantly
related to technical efficiency while seed, labour and fertilizer were statistically significant to technical efficiency
while the gamma (γ) ratio indicates the relative magnitude of the variance σ2, associated with technical inefficiency
effects. The estimated allocative efficiency is 41.9% and seed, fertilizer, laabour, chemical and transport were all
statistically significant to allocative efficiency while the inefficiency model revealed factors such as farming
experience, educational status and access to credit were all positively and significantly related to allocative
efficiency. The mean economic efficiency was 94.5% and the minimum and maximum were 10.0 and 91.5%,
respectively. The study recommends that Government should facilitate the availability of credit to sesame farmers
through promotion of credit cooperatives. Further more, government should make fertilizer readily available and in a
subsidized rate, government should also look into the inherent potential and harness them both for foreign exchange
earning and for industrial usage.
Key words: Efficiency , farmers, Nasarawa, Nigeria, profit, sesame,
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Ater, P.I and Abah .D. , . PROFIT EFFICIENCY AMONG SESAME FARMERS IN NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA. Current Research Journal of Social Sciences, (4): 261-268.
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