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Today's date is Friday, March 29, 2024
CWR Presents : Identifying performance benchmarks in Ghanaian agriculture through efficiency analysis. Other events...
Agricultural production in Ghana is mainly carried out by smallholder farmers on a subsistence basis. Smallholders constitute about 95% of the farming population and produce 80% of the annual output.

This study investigates the level of technical efficiency of farms using a sample of 294 households from the Upper East region of Ghana. Bootstrap DEA methods are used to estimate technical efficiency and the factors affecting efficiency are examined. This is the first study that uses bootstrap DEA methods in efficiency analysis of agriculture in Ghana.

Results from the application of the nonparametric DEA frontier models show that mean technical efficiency is low and there is significant variability in efficiency among the sample farms. The results imply that agricultural productivity can be increased substantially through improvement in technical efficiency.

From a policy point of view educational status and use of hired labour have been found to hold the greatest potential for improving technical efficiency in Ghanaian agriculture.

Keywords: Bootstrap DEA, Ghana, policy, smallholders, technical efficiency

Short bio,

Luke Abatania commenced his PhD research in the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in March 2009.

Abatania’s background is in Agricultural Economics and his research focus has been on the adoption and impact of improved technologies on farm household welfare. His current research interests are in productivity and an efficiency analysis of smallholder agricultural production.

Abatania has worked as an Agricultural Economist/Research Fellow at the following organisations in Ghana: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1992-2006), International Food Policy Research Institute (2006-2007), University of Ghana (2007-date). He was also a part-time lecturer at the University for Development Studies in Ghana (2002-2004).

Abatania holds a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Ghana. He submitted a thesis to UWA in June 2013 for the award of a PhD degree and is currently awaiting the result.

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Speaker(s) Luke Abatania, Postgraduate Student (PhD), Agricultural and Resource Economics,, The University of Western Australia
Location Blakers Lecture Room, Ground Floor, Mathematics Building, The University of Western Australia http://maps.uwa.edu.au/crawley/display/10
Contact Askale Abebe <[email protected]> : 6488 7565
URL [email protected]
Start Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:00
End Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:00
Submitted by Askale Abebe <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:03
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