Farm size and productive efficiency: lessons from Mbinga coffee farm-ers

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dc.contributor.authorLutengano, Mwinuka
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-16T07:02:43Z
dc.date.available2024-08-16T07:02:43Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionAbstract. Full text article available at https://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijrss&volume=3&issue=1&article=007
dc.description.abstractProductive efficiency measurement is very important both in developed and developing agriculture and its roles are widely recognized by farmers, researchers and policy markers. This study attempted not only to investigate on the farm size and productivity relationship debate which has not gone through a complete circle in Tanzania but also find out whether inefficiency resource use by farmers is a problem or not. The study revealed that, mean level of profit efficiency was 52.4% which implied that an estimated 47.6% of the profit was lost due to a combination of both technical and allocative inefficiency in coffee production. The efficiency difference were explained largely by household size, farmer's experience, age of coffee trees, education level, extension services, capital amounts, and time used by a farmer to move from one coffee farm to another. It was concluded that very small and small size farms were associated with more profit-loss compared to medium size farms. It is recommended that farmers should increase their farm size at least to medium farms of more than 1 262 coffee trees in order to increase coffee farm efficiency hence profit.
dc.identifier.citationMwinuka, L. (2013). Farm size and productive efficiency: lessons from Mbinga coffee farmers. International Journal of Research in Social Sciences, 3(1), 89-110.
dc.identifier.otherURL: https://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ijrss&volume=3&issue=1&article=007
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.udom.ac.tz/handle/20.500.12661/4562
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInternational Journals of Multidisciplinary Research Academy
dc.subjectProduction
dc.subjectCoffee
dc.subjectProfitability
dc.subjectPoverty reduction
dc.subjectProfit-loss
dc.subjectTanzania.
dc.titleFarm size and productive efficiency: lessons from Mbinga coffee farm-ers
dc.typeArticle
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