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Efficiency of Zimbabwean Small Scale Communal Farmers

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  • Mushunje, A.
  • Belete, A.

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This paper investigates the ailocative efficiency of two samples of communal area farmers in Mamcaland province of Zimbabwe. The first one is made up of maize producers and the other of cotton producers. Maize is the staple food for most Zimbabweans and cotton has, as of late become the most popular cash crop for these small-scale communal (SSC) farmers. For each crop the Cobb-Douglas production function model is used to investigate the allocative efficiency of the maize and cotton producers. The tests for allocative efficiency are performed by estimating the equations for the Cobb-Douglas production function model. The findings of this paper show: that the SSC farmers are utilising the fertilizer resource efficiently but they are under- utilising _ land, seed and insecticides. These producers are over-utilising labour and capital.

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  • Mushunje, A. & Belete, A., 2001. "Efficiency of Zimbabwean Small Scale Communal Farmers," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 40(3), September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:agreko:269418
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.269418
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    1. Ng’ombe, John N., 2017. "Technical efficiency of smallholder maize production in Zambia: a stochastic meta-frontier approach," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 56(3), December.
    2. John N. Ng’ombe, 2017. "Technical efficiency of smallholder maize production in Zambia: a stochastic meta-frontier approach," Agrekon, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(4), pages 347-365, October.
    3. Maziya, Sikhanyiso Angel, 2019. "The impact of the Europeun Union grant on access to credit and production in smallholder sugarcane agriculture in Siphofaneni, Eswatini," Research Theses 334775, Collaborative Masters Program in Agricultural and Applied Economics.
    4. Zainab Oyetunde-Usman & Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju, 2019. "Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria," Economies, MDPI, vol. 7(4), pages 1-13, October.

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