Abstract
This work analyzes the technical efficiency of maize farmers and its influencing factors in Ombella Mpoko, Central African Republic, using the data from primary source of the farmers in the region of Boali and Damara. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire, on farmers’ output of maize, inputs used in the production process (land, capital, labor, fertilizer and cuttings) on each plot, and the socio-economic and plot-specific characteristics. This included farmer’s age, level of education, household size, and farm size, membership in cooperative and producer organizations as well as other relevant variables. The study employed the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) Approach and the Tobit model. The result shows that socio-economic factors, environmental factors and physical and technical factors have a significant influence on maize production in study area. In other words, this shows that technical inefficiency effects do make a significant contribution to the level and variation of maize production in Boali, Damara, and Ombella. That is why the final null hypothesis explores the test that specifies each farm is operating on the technically efficient frontier and that the systematic and random technical efficiency in the inefficiency effects are zero. This is rejected in favor of the presence of inefficiency effects.
Highlights
This shows that technical inefficiency effects do make a significant contribution to the level and variation of maize production in Boali, Damara, and Ombella
The Physical and technical factors take in consideration issues of land tenure, area of the field, amount of seed planted, type of seed planted, location of supply of certified grain, and use of inputs. These physical and technical factors play an important role in the efficiency of a farmer
The aim of this article was to assess the level of technical efficiency of maize producers in the Boali, Damara and Ombella regions, and to analyze its influence factors on corn production in the study area
Summary
It is dominated by the cultivation and sale of food crops, such as cassava, peanuts, maize, sorghum, millet, sesame, and plantain. In Africa alone, more than 300 million people depend on maize as their main food crop [2]. Maize production in Africa is very low: while the average yield worldwide is approximately 5.5 tons/hectare/year, production in Africa stagnates at around 2 tons/hectare/year [4]. Satellite-based rainfall estimates indicate that, in the southern maize-producing areas, above average amounts were received across the country since the beginning of the cropping season in February until the third decade of October. Despite adequate weather conditions, persisting civil insecurity continues to negatively constrain crop production as the area planted significantly declined due to the abandonment of a substantial number of farms. The 2018 aggregate output is preliminarily estimated to be below average and significantly reduced compared to the pre-crisis levels in 2013
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