Production Efficiency of Farmers under National Fadama II Project in Oyo State, Nigeria

• Main Authors: O.L Balogun, A. Adeoye, S.A. Yusuf, R, J Akinlade, A. Carim-Sanni
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Islamic Azad University 2012-03-01
• Series: International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development
• Subjects: Rural infrastructure; Infras t r u c t u r a l I n d e x; G r o s s margin; Agricultural production; Technical inefficiency
• Online Access: http://www.ijamad.com/2(no1)/IJAMAD2-2(1).pdf
• ISSN: 2159-5852; 2159-5860

The study examines production efficiency of farmers underNational Fadama-II Project in Oyo State Nigeria. Primarydata were collected from two hundred and sixty-four farmersusing multistage sampling technique. The analytical frameworkused for the study include: descriptive, infrastructure index,gross margin and stochastic frontier production function. Averageinfrastructural index in the area was 0.42. The gross margin forIDV was ₦445, 968.30 while for IUV for under-developed inFadama villages is ₦357, 805.00. Gross margin was higher forFadama II farmers than non Fadama-II farmers in IDV. Themean technical efficiency were 0.69 and 0.59 for Fadama andnon-Fadama farmers respectively. The result showed that technicalinefficiency of female Fadama-II farmers reduced by 0.19%while that of non-Fadama II farmers by 1.23%. Similarly,extension contact, marital status and infrastructural status reducedtechnical inefficiency of Fadama-II farmers by 2.8%, 0.3% and2.6% respectively. Presence of infrastructure of Fadama-IIproject has imparted on efficiency of resource use among thebeneficiary. There is therefore need to improve on CommunityDriven Development programme like Fadama-II and on comingFadama-III project or any developmental project, so as to furtherimpart more technical and economic knowledge to farmers.