Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Garden Egg Production in Hawul Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study analyzed the determinants of technical efficiency in garden egg production in Hawul Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 102 respondents. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The result of socio-economic characteristics revealed that 39.21% of the farmers were within the age of 31-40 years, 62.75% had farm size between 0.1-1ha, 43.16% had household size of 6-10 person, 56.86% had a farming experience of 11-15 years, 62.75% were male, 49.06% were married and 58.83% attended tertiary institution. The results revealed that mean technical efficiency was 91.68% and majority (60.8%) of the farmers had technical efficiency of 0.81 and above. The production variables had positive coefficients and were all significant at different levels. The value of ᵞ is estimated to be 0.60 which is highly significant at 5%. The value of δ 2 was 0.46. Seed and fertilizer were significant at 1%, labour and farm size were significant at 5%.
The study concluded that inefficiency was present in small scale garden egg production in the study area. The production variables for the study were significant in contributing to the output of small-scale garden egg production. Technical inefficiency variables which include age, educational status, access to credit and years of experience contributed to the technical efficiency. The study recommended that farmers should be encouraged to use improved seeds which will ensure maximum output. Increase in the use fertilizer, labour and seed that would have positive and significant influence on output in the study area