EXAMINING EFFICIENCY UNDER MULTI-CROPPING SYSTEMS

Ebenezer Ogunyinka, Oluwarotimi Odeh and Igbekele Ajibefun

No 34726, 2004 Annual Meeting, February 14-18, 2004, Tulsa, Oklahoma from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: This paper computes overall efficiency for 64 farmers practicing multi-cropping system in Ekiti State of Nigeria. These are decomposed into pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Results show that 34 and 40 farmers are technically and scale inefficient, respectively. Overall, 40 farmers are found to be inefficient.

Keywords: Farm Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004

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