Authors : O.A. Adeleke , Y.L. Fabiyi , A. Ajiboye and H.M. Matanmi
Abstract: This research broadly examined the technical efficiency of the female cassava production in Oluyole and Akinyele Local Government Areas of Oyo State, Nigeria. The study employed the use of cross-sectional data from farm survey conducted on a sample of 245 cassava farmers from eight villages in the study areas. The data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire and were later analyzed. The Econometric analytical models were employed in order to analyze the data collected from the field. Among the cassava farmers, the variables that were significant included pesticide quantity used (at 1%) and hired labour employed (at 1%). By implication, the above findings revealed that the major productive inputs that greatly impact on the cassava output of the cassava enterprise were the quantity of pesticide used on their farms as well as the amount of mandays of hired labour employed. The quantity of pesticide used existed as the most important input that impact on cassava output of the farmers. The estimated sigma square ( 2) for the cassava farmers is 0.1819. The estimated gamma ( ) parameter of cassava farms revealed that 99% of the variations in the cassava output among the cassava farmers in the study area are due to the differences in their technical efficiencies. The study also revealed the existence of inefficiency effects among the cassava farmers in the study area as the farmers whether male or female were not fully technically efficient. The RTS for the cassava farmers is 1.03 in the study areas.
O.A. Adeleke , Y.L. Fabiyi , A. Ajiboye and H.M. Matanmi , 2008. Application of Stochastic Production Frontier in the Estimation of Technical Efficiency of Cassava Farmers in Oluyole and Akinyele Local Government Areas of Oyo State. Research Journal of Agronomy, 2: 71-77.