Gender Comparison In Production And Productivity Of Cocoa Farmers In Ile Oluji Local Government Area Of Ondo State, Nigeria

Authors

  • Dr. OGUNNIYI

Keywords:

technically, insecticides

Abstract

The study was conducted in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State to analyze the gender and farm technical efficiency of cocoa production Why the research Is it to increase productivity or to correct gender issues State it here The data were collected from 100 respondents with the use of structured questionnaire which involved 54 men and 46 women cocoa farmers The maximum likelihood estimates of frontier model of male farmers showed that only family labour and pesticides were significant while for female farmers hired labour insecticides and family size were significant In addition the inefficiency model of male cocoa farmers showed that age education and experience were significant on technical inefficiency while female inefficiency model was significant in education experience and age of cocoa plant The technical efficiency showed that a lot can be done to increase the production capacity of both gender in order to make them technically efficient

How to Cite

Dr. OGUNNIYI. (2012). Gender Comparison In Production And Productivity Of Cocoa Farmers In Ile Oluji Local Government Area Of Ondo State, Nigeria. Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, 12(D5), 59–64. Retrieved from https://journalofscience.org/index.php/GJSFR/article/view/516

Gender Comparison In Production And Productivity Of Cocoa Farmers In Ile Oluji Local Government Area Of Ondo State, Nigeria

Published

2012-03-15