The Efficiency of Traditional and Hybrid Maize Production in Eastern Ethiopia: An Extended Efficiency Decomposition Approach

Posted: 29 Feb 2008

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Arega D. Alene

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Rashid M. Hassan

University of Pretoria

Date Written: March 2006

Abstract

The productive efficiencies of traditional and hybrid maize producers in eastern Ethiopia are derived using an efficiency decomposition technique that we extend to account for scale effects. The paper illustrates the sensitivity of the conventional approach to scale effects. The results revealed high inefficiency among both traditional and hybrid maize producers. High inefficiency among hybrid maize producers is consistent with the argument that food production gains from improved agricultural technologies have not been realised in poor countries like Ethiopia due mainly to poor support services, including extension, education, credit and input supply.

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Alene, Arega D. and Hassan, Rashid M., The Efficiency of Traditional and Hybrid Maize Production in Eastern Ethiopia: An Extended Efficiency Decomposition Approach (March 2006). Journal of African Economies, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 91-116, March 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=915471 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jae/eji017

Arega D. Alene

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Rashid M. Hassan (Contact Author)

University of Pretoria ( email )

Physical Address Economic and Management Sciences
Pretoria, Gauteng 0002
South Africa

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