期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：108-116
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：This study assesses resource use efficiency and Rice Production in Guma Local Government Area of Benue state. To achieve this Primary data were used. The analytical tools include gross margin and stochastic frontier production function applied on a cross-sectional data of 620 sampled randomly from rice farmers during 2011 farming season. The results indicate that both yield and profit of small and medium scale farmers remained small, when compared with large scale farmers. Also the results from Maximum Likelihood Estimation shows that all estimated coefficients among various farm operation indicates positive sign which implies that increase in quantities of these inputs would result in increase output of rice. The results obtained from the Inefficiency model, indicates the resource use in rice production in the study area was not fully utilized in all the categories of farms examined, although farmers were generally relatively efficient, they still have room to increase the efficiency of their farming activities to 65%, 53% and 46% for small, medium and large scale farm respectively to close the efficiency gap from the optimum (100%). The technical returns to scales measured by the sum of the elasticity of all significant factors showed that small and large scale exhibited increasing return to scale while medium scale farms demonstrated decreasing return to scale, but for pooled observation it depict constant return to scale. The study recommended that farm inputs should be made available to farmers at highly subsidized rates and makes them available timely, through adequate supply and efficient distribution.
关键词：Efficiency of Resource-use; Food Crisis; Elasticity of Production; Maximum Likelihood;Estimates; Return to Scale; Stochastic Frontier Production Function.
