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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (1) Autor Ajibefun, Igbekele A. (1) Palavra-chave Nigeria (1) Policy variables (1) Productivity Analysis (1) Socio-economic variables (1) Technical efficiency (1) Traditional agriculture (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (1) Ano 2006 (1) País United States (1) Idioma Inglês (1)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última Linking Socio-Economic and Policy Variables to Technical Efficiency of Traditional Agricultural Production: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria AgEcon Ajibefun, Igbekele A.. The major objective of this study was to analyze and link the level of technical efficiency of Nigerian small-scale farmers to specific farmers' socio-economic and policy variables. Data were collected on 461 food crop farmers selected from five states of Southwestern Nigeria. The selection of respondent farmers was multi-stage and involved random sampling method, stratification as well as purposive sampling. The collected data were analyzed with the use of stochastic frontier production modeling technique. The results show that while farmers socio-economic and policy variables significantly influenced the level of technical efficiency, education has the highest marginal effect on technical efficiency while gender has the least marginal effect. The highest... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Traditional agriculture; Socio-economic variables; Policy variables; Technical efficiency; Nigeria; Productivity Analysis. Ano: 2006 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25535 Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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