EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF CEREAL -LEGUME BASED CROPPING SYSTEM IN KACHIA AND KAGARKO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA STATE
1 Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension Faculty of Agriculture Federal University Gashua Yobe State
* Corresponding author: salehpeter@yahoo.com
* Corresponding author: salehpeter@yahoo.com
Abstract
The study was to examine the level of resource used efficiency in cereal legume base cropping
system in Kachia and Kagarko Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. A multi stagesampling
procedure was use, the random sampling techniques was employed for the selection of a total of
150 farmers who were interviewed through the used of structured questionnaire aimed to
captured the objectives of the study. Data were analysed with the use of descriptive statistics and
stochastic production function. Findings from the results shows that the major cereal legume
combination observed in the cultivated farmer’s plots in the area were maize and soya bean,
sorghum and groundnut maize and groundnut, maize and soya bean and sorghum and soya bean
in the respective order. Farmers were relatively efficient in the used of the production resources
and technology at their disposal, with seed and fertilizer as the most significant resources which
affects the efficiency of the cereal legume production. Age and house hold size were the most
significant socio economics variables that affects inefficiency of production in the study area.
Keywords
Stochastic
Production
frontier
efficiency
Cereal
Legume
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How to Cite
P, S., E, T. N., & M, G. (2016). EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF CEREAL -LEGUME BASED CROPPING SYSTEM IN KACHIA AND KAGARKO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA STATE. Gashua Journal of Irrigation and Desertification Studies, 2(2), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.67390/gjids.2016.198cfsfa
S. P, T. N. E, and G. M, "EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF CEREAL -LEGUME BASED CROPPING SYSTEM IN KACHIA AND KAGARKO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA STATE," Gashua Journal of Irrigation and Desertification Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 23-37, November 2016. doi: 10.67390/gjids.2016.198cfsfa
