[PDF] Technical Efficiency Of Sesame Production eBook

Author : Abel Manaye
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3668488797

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Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, , course: Agricultural Economics, language: English, abstract: This study aimed to analyze the technical efficiency of sesame production in Humera area and to identify major factors that cause efficiency differentials of smallholder farmers. The objective of the study is to measure the technical efficiency of small holder farmers in sesame production. The study was conducted using a cross sectional data collected in 2015/2016-production year from a total sample of 110 households. Cobb-Douglas function was employed to estimate technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in sesame production. The finding of the study indicated that there is inefficiency in the production of sesame in the study area. The estimation of the frontier model with inefficiency variables shows that the mean technical efficiency of farmers is 0.69 (69%). This implies that production of sesame can be increased by 31 percent given the existing technological level. This indicates that the farmers did not using production inputs efficiently in such a way that they give their maximum potential. The estimated stochastic production frontier model together with the inefficiency parameters suggests that any attempt to strengthen technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in the study area must give due attention to the improvement of the principal causes for efficiency differentials such as education, age, extension contact, credit availability, off farm activities and proximity, which were found to be significant determinants of efficiency level. The negative coefficient of educational status, age, credit availability, extension contact and off farm activities means these factors are important in determining the existing efficiency of farmers positively and significantly. While the positive coefficients of proximity indicate that the increments in these factors increase inefficiency. Given the limited resources in the study area will enable the concerned parties engaged in efforts for improvement of the product and productivity of this part of the community to bring about the desired changes in a cost effective way than trying to inject an investment on the production of sesame.

Author : Ermiyas Mekonnen
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2013
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ISBN : 9783659501234

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Efficiency study will play a significant role in providing useful information regarding the level of inefficiencies in production and helps identify those factors, which are associated with inefficiencies that may exist. The aim of this study was to measure the levels of technical, allocative and economic efficiencies of sesame producers and identify factors affecting them in Selamago district of south Omo zone, Southern Ethiopia. This book can serve as a reference for those who are interested in analyzing production efficiency.

Author : R.W. Shephard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642515789

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This study is the result of an interest in the economic theory of production intermittently pursued during the past three years. Over this period I have received substantial support from the Office of Naval Research, first from a personal service consulting contract directly with the Mathematics Division of the Office of Naval Research and secondly from Project N6 onr-27009 at Princeton Univer sity under the direction of Professor Oskar Morgenstern. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the ·Office of Naval Research for this support and to Professor Morgenstern, in particular, for his interest in the puolication of this research. The responsibility for errors and omissions, how ever, rests entirely upon the author. Professor G. C. Evans has given in terms of a simple total cost function, depending solely upon output rate, a treatment of certain aspects of the economic theory of production which has inherent generality and convenience of formulation. The classical approach of expressing the technology of production by means of a production function is potentially less restrictive than the use of a simple total cost function, but it has not been applied in a more general form other than to derive the familiar conditions between marginal productivities of the factors of produc tion and their market prices.

Author : Kassie, Girma T.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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The Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is the largest non-profit public agricultural research group globally. Recently, it has restructured itself into One-CGIAR with the intention of integrating its capabilities, knowledge, assets, people, and global presence for a new era of intercon nected and partnership-driven research towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One-CGIAR led the development of about 30 initiatives that aimed at addressing one more of the key impact areas of SDGs. One of these initiatives is “Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for Inclu sion and Sustainability,” referred to as rethinking markets in short. Rethinking Markets Initiative aims to provide evidence on what types of bundled innovations, incentive structures, and policies are most effec tive for creating more equitable sharing of income and employment opportunities in growing food markets, while reducing the food sector’s environmental footprint. The initiative has four work packages addressing different but interrelated issues and that are being implemented in one or more countries. Work Package 1 (WP1) is about making globally integrated value chains inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable.

Author : John A. Dixon
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251046272

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A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.

Author : Mekonen Debara
Publisher : IPR Journals and Book Publishers
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
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Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9914728820

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TOPICS IN THE BOOK Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of the Local Community on Watershed Management at Kindo Koysha Woreda 0f Wolayta Zone, Southern Ethiopia Comparative Ananalysis of Income of Smallholder Cereals and Legumes Crop Enterprises in Nasarawa State – Nigeria Assessment of Farmers’ Management Activities on Scattered Trees on Crop Fields at Gemechis District, West Hararge Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia Effect of Water Harvesting Techniques on Grain Yield and Above Ground Biomass of Cowpea

Author : Harold O. Fried
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198040504

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When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest for its accessible treatment of the rapidly growing field of efficiency and productivity analysis. The first several chapters, providing the background, motivation, and theoretical foundations for this topic, were the most widely recognized. In this tight, direct update, these same editors have compiled over ten years of the most recent research in this changing field, and expanded on those seminal chapters. The book will guide readers from the basic models to the latest, cutting-edge extensions, and will be reinforced by references to classic and current theoretical and applied research. It is intended for professors and graduate students in a variety of fields, ranging from economics to agricultural economics, business administration, management science, and public administration. It should also appeal to public servants and policy makers engaged in business performance analysis or regulation.

Author : Dean T. Jamison
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This book explores the relationship between the education farmers have received and their subsequent efficiency as farm operators. The concern is with the self-employed in agriculture, the small farmer. The study is concerned solely with ascertaining empirically the effect of schooling on agricultural efficiency and, when possible, the effect of access to information as measured by exposure to extension services. The study uses data from Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand; related findings from several other countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are reviewed. Surveys of individual farms provide the data used in the empirical analyses. Analyses from Thailand indicate that farmers of all educational levels are maximizing profits. However, more educated farmers do have higher levels of profits, which reflect the higher levels of productivity found in the production function analyses. Education has little effect on market efficiency. Higher levels of education and exposure to extension services increase the probabilities of using chemical fertilizers. The effects of education were much more likely to be positive in modernizing agricultural environments rather than in traditional ones.