Impacts of Improved Seed Maize Technology Adoption on Productivity and Technical Efficiency in Northern Ghana

Dokyi Emmanuel, Anang Benjamin Tetteh () and Victor Owusu
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Dokyi Emmanuel: Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
Anang Benjamin Tetteh: Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Open Economics, 2021, vol. 4, issue 1, 118-132

Abstract: Improved seed is one of the crucial ingredients for promoting agricultural productivity, farmers’ livelihood, and global food security. The present study uses an endogenous treatment regression model (ETRM) to evaluate the impacts of improved seed maize technology (ISMT) adoption on technical efficiency and productivity using data from maize farmers in northern Ghana. The findings show that ISMT adoption impacts positively on technical efficiency. Adoption of ISMT enhanced technical efficiency by 16.1% and increased maize productivity by 33.8%. The study recommends dissemination of improved maize seeds to farmers and other interventions such as provision of fertilizer to enhance farmers’ technical efficiency and productivity.

Keywords: adoption; stochastic frontier analysis; technical efficiency; endogenous treatment-regression model; Tolon District (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 D24 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/openec-2020-0102

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