Resource use efficiency and factors influencing maize production in Kuje Area Council, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Year 2022, , 507 - 515, 30.12.2022

Funso Alabuja , Luka Anthony , Elizabeth Ebukiba

https://doi.org/10.31015/jaefs.2022.4.2

Abstract

This study estimated resource-use efficiency and factors influencing maize production in Kuje Area Council, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to; determine the socioeconomic characteristics of maize farmers; analyse cost and returns associated with maize production; evaluate factors influencing the output of maize production; determine the resource-use efficiency of maize production and identify the constraints faced by farmers in maize production in the study area. Multistage sampling technique was employed to select 60 7sampled maize farmers in the study area. The following tools of analysis were used to achieve the specific objectives of the study. Descriptive statistics; Gross margin analysis; resource-use efficiency and Cobb Douglass production function. The results showed that majority, 75 percent, of the sampled respondents were male while 73.3 percent were married. From the results it can further be deduced that 48.3 percent of the sampled respondents attended secondary school and 31.7 percent attended tertiary institution while the rest stopped at primary school level or did not have any formal education. The results also indicated that about 55 percent of the sampled maize farmers had household size ranges within 6-10. 100 percent of the sampled respondents had no access to credit and 83.4 percent had no access to extension services. From the analysis of cost and returns associated with maize production in the study area, the total revenue (TR) realized on average was N1,269,152.69 and the average total variable cost (TVC) was N188,462.69, the gross margin obtained was N1,080,690. With this result we can say that maize production is profitable in the study area. The results of the resource-use-efficiency revealed that farm size, seed input and labour input were underutilized while fertilizer input and chemical input were over utilized by maize farmers. The results of the Cobb Douglass production function model revealed that the factors influencing total output of maize production in the Study area were farm size (P<0.1), labour (P<0.01), chemical (P<0.01) and Fertilizer P<0.05). The major constraints faced by maize farmers in the study area include; inadequate capital, lack of fertilizer and lack of extension agent. Therefore, the study recommends that maize farmers should be encouraged to join the farmers’ association, and supported with credit facilities. Government should supply inputs like agrochemical, fertilizer and improved seed varieties to maize farmers at a subsidized rate and at appropriate time and extension agents are to guide the farmers in the usage of these inputs while mechanize farming system should be encouraged by providing tractors to replace local farm implements. Good roads are essential in linking maize production areas with available markets around the study area.

Keywords

Resource-use, Efficiency, maize, Production, Nigeria

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