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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• 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