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Analysis of Technical Efficiency in Sorghum Production: The case of small-holder farmers in Raya-azebo District of Southern Tigray, Ethiopia - Couverture souple

Amare, Haileselassie; Alemu, Dawit

 
9783659108228: Analysis of Technical Efficiency in Sorghum Production: The case of small-holder farmers in Raya-azebo District of Southern Tigray, Ethiopia
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659108227 ISBN 13 : 9783659108228
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Crop yield can be increased by expanding crop area, raising yield per unit area or by growing more crops per year. However, in our context, where financial resources of small-holder farmers are limited and farm technologies are scarce and relatively expensive, improving level of technical efficiency of individual farmers is the cheapest method. In the study the estimated mean level of technical efficiency of sorghum producers was about 79%. This reveals that in the short run there exists a possibility to increase the level of sorghum output by about 21% using the existing local practices and technical knowledge of the relatively efficient farmers. Off-farm occupation has negative effect on the level of technical efficiency. Middle age farmers are also relatively more efficient than the youngsters and old farmers. Weeding and extension contact also affect technical efficiency positively and significantly. Hence, the result conveys important message for readers who closely work with small-holder farmers how to improve productivity by applying low external inputs.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Crop yield can be increased by expanding crop area, raising yield per unit area or by growing more crops per year. However, in our context, where financial resources of small-holder farmers are limited and farm technologies are scarce and relatively expensive, improving level of technical efficiency of individual farmers is the cheapest method. In the study the estimated mean level of technical efficiency of sorghum producers was about 79%. This reveals that in the short run there exists a possibility to increase the level of sorghum output by about 21% using the existing local practices and technical knowledge of the relatively efficient farmers. Off-farm occupation has negative effect on the level of technical efficiency. Middle age farmers are also relatively more efficient than the youngsters and old farmers. Weeding and extension contact also affect technical efficiency positively and significantly. Hence, the result conveys important message for readers who closely work with small-holder farmers how to improve productivity by applying low external inputs.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mr. Haileselassie Amare studied his second degree in Agricultural Economics at Alemaya University. For the last 10 years he had been working as socio-economic researcher in TARI. Now,he is coordinating the Irish Aid funded Operational Research for Technology Dissemination Project in Tigray

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659108227
ISBN 13 
9783659108228
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
108
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