Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia
This paper estimates technical inefficiency in milk production of smallholder dairy farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia and identified factors associated with the observed inefficiency using a stochastic frontier production function approach. The analysis utilizes a cross-section data collected fro...
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| author | Adane, Z. Shiferaw, K. Gebremedhin, Berhanu |
| author_browse | Adane, Z. Gebremedhin, Berhanu Shiferaw, K. |
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| description | This paper estimates technical inefficiency in milk production of smallholder dairy farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia and identified factors associated with the observed inefficiency using a stochastic frontier production function approach. The analysis utilizes a cross-section data collected from 1,277 farm households. The result indicates a mean technical efficiency of 55%, suggesting a sizeable technical inefficiency in milk production. The result further shows that household wealth, education level and access to markets as well as institutions are the main drivers of technical efficiency in dairy production. Evidently, by improving smallholder access to market and institutions as well as investing on adult education can bring considerable gain in milk production. |
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| spelling | CGSpace759902025-11-13T10:39:02Z Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia Adane, Z. Shiferaw, K. Gebremedhin, Berhanu dairies livestock This paper estimates technical inefficiency in milk production of smallholder dairy farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia and identified factors associated with the observed inefficiency using a stochastic frontier production function approach. The analysis utilizes a cross-section data collected from 1,277 farm households. The result indicates a mean technical efficiency of 55%, suggesting a sizeable technical inefficiency in milk production. The result further shows that household wealth, education level and access to markets as well as institutions are the main drivers of technical efficiency in dairy production. Evidently, by improving smallholder access to market and institutions as well as investing on adult education can bring considerable gain in milk production. 2016-05-15 2016-07-07T07:53:07Z 2016-07-07T07:53:07Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75990 en Open Access image/jpeg Academic Journals Adane, Z., Shiferaw, K. and Gebremedhin, B. 2016. Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia. African Journal of Agricultural Research 11(19):1777-1786 |
| spellingShingle | dairies livestock Adane, Z. Shiferaw, K. Gebremedhin, Berhanu Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia |
| title | Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in ethiopia |
| topic | dairies livestock |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75990 |
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