Technical Efficiency of Rice Producers in Mwea Irrigation Scheme

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dc.contributor.authorKabuage, L.
dc.contributor.authorOmmeh, H.
dc.contributor.authorKuria, J.N.
dc.contributor.authorMbogo, S.
dc.contributor.authorMutero, C.
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-11T13:11:05Z
dc.date.available2014-07-11T13:11:05Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractA study to investigate the technical Efficiency associated with rice production was carried in Mwea irrigation Scheme. Two groups of farmers were compared, one group consisting of farmers growing a single crop of rice in a year and the other growing a double crop of rice in a year. Most of rice production in Kenya comes from Mwea Irrigation Scheme. Until 1998, the Government’s National Irrigation Board was running the Scheme. Since, the management has been taken over by a local farmer’s cooperative society, the Mwea Multipurpose Rice Growers. This latter management however lacks the resources and facilities for effective management and this has led to a decline in rice production in the Scheme. There have been constraints in credit and extension facilities as well as other physical production inputs. The study uses a stochastic frontier production function model in which the technical inefficiency effects are assumed to be a function of farmer’s specific characteristics as well as institutional factors. Empirical results indicated that farmers growing a single crop of rice were more technically efficient that those growing a double crop of rice in a year. Farmer’s education level and farming experience as well as availability of credit and extension facilities were found to be significant variables influences technical efficiency. The study recommended that a policy to facilitate the availability of credit and extension services to farmers has to be drawn, as well as a policy which would encourage research on a dry land crop to rotate with rice rather than growing two crops which are technically inefficient.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAfrican Crop Science Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6. 668-673en_US
dc.identifier.issn1023-070
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/10369
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectRice,en_US
dc.subjectTechnical efficiency,en_US
dc.subjectstochastic frontier production function.en_US
dc.titleTechnical Efficiency of Rice Producers in Mwea Irrigation Schemeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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