The Determinants Of the Technical Efficiency of Cotton Farmers in Northern Cameroon

Cletus Neba, Sylvain Ngassam and Joseph Nzomo

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Abstract: This paper, seeks to evaluate the technical efficiency of cotton farms in the northern part of Cameroon through the use of a parametric production frontier. The evaluation approach used is a stochastic type which shows that in spite of the fact that cotton yields in Cameroon are amongst the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, efficiency indexes are still as low as 60% in average. Having had a diagnosis overview aimed at identifying the determinant of technical efficiency with the use of a regression function, the main findings show that the characteristics of the producer as well as environmental factors all influence technical efficiency.

Keywords: technical efficiency; cotton farms; northern Cameroon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-06-16
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