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Farming & Management

Comparative analysis of resource-use efficiency among rice producing household beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the Fadama III AF project in Ebonyi State, Nigeria 


DOI: 10.31830/2456-8724.2025.FM-165    | Article Id: FM-165 | Page : 85-95
Citation :- Comparative analysis of resource-use efficiency among rice producing household beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the Fadama III AF project in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Farm. Manage. 10: 85-95
NWAKPU CLETUS CHUKWUMA cletakpus@yahoo.com
Address : Department of Agricultural Economics, Management and Extension, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria
Submitted Date : 12-07-2025
Accepted Date : 6-09-2025
Online Published:

Abstract

Low agricultural productivity remains a persistent barrier to food security and poverty reduction in Nigeria. The Fadama III AF Project, through its input component, aimed to support smallholder farmers in sustainably achieving higher productivity. In Ebonyi State, where rice is a dominant livelihood crop, the Project's effect on resource-use efficiency has not been empirically examined. This study carried out a comparative analysis of resource use efficiency among rice producing household beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the Fadama III AF Project in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was employed to select 108 respondents (comprising 54 rice producing household beneficiaries and 54 rice producing household non-beneficiaries of the Fadama III AF Project) to whom a structured questionnaire was administered. Data were analysed using inferential statistics of the Cobb-Douglas production function and descriptive statistics. The regression results revealed that the beneficiaries were more efficient than the non-beneficiaries in the utilization and allocation of all the resource inputs. The sum of the b-values of the beneficiaries (0.9022) being higher and closer to one (unity) than the sum of the b-values of the non-beneficiaries (0.5604) implied higher productivity of resource inputs under the beneficiaries. Similarly, the deviation from one (unity) of the MVP to MFC ratios implied that the beneficiaries were more allocatively efficient in the use of the farm resources than the non-beneficiaries. Constraints to the efficient and increased rice production in the area were a lack of finance, scarcity and high cost of improved rice seeds, other inputs and undeveloped/poorly developed lowland rice farms among others. The study therefore recommended effective policy measures aimed at ensuring comprehensive increase in farmers’ access to essential production inputs, credit facilities and efficient extension services. Also, strategic collaboration should be brokered between relevant government agencies; National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM) and the National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI) to assist farmers survey and properly develop their large lowland rice farms. These will help to achieve increased rice production, income and food security for Nigerians.

Keywords

Cobb-Douglas production function Fadama low productivity rate of return to scale resource-use efficiency 

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