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| | Article Name : | | Analysis of Gender Differentials in Technical
Efficiency among Smallholder Maize Farmers in
Rwanda | Author Name : | | Dr. RUVUNA ERIC, Dr. RUTURWA DANIEL, Dr. MURWANASHYAKA THEOPHILE | Publisher : | | Bridge Center | Article URL : | | | Abstract : | | One of the ways to achieve food security and poverty reduction
among smallholder farmers in developing countries is to ensure
efficient use of the scare agricultural resources. Objective of this study
was to estimate maize output for male and for female farmers. To
achieve this objective data on the socio-economic and institutional
factors were collected among 80 male managed farms and 80 female
managed farms based on the simple random sampling method. To
analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were adopted.
The findings of the maximum likelihood estimates confirmed that farm
size, seed, organic fertilizer, inorganic fertilizer and labour affected
maize production for the male farmers while farm size, seed, organic
fertilizer and labour affected maize production for female farmers
therefore considered as important factors in determining maize output.
Higher return to scale was observed in male managed farms because
male’s RTS was greater than 1 while that of female was less than 1
implying that male farmers were operating in the increasing return to
scale while female farmers were in the decreasing return to scale.
Analysis of technical efficiency results reported that higher mean
technical efficiency (86%) was found in male managed farms compared
to that of female managed farms (61%). Based on the findings of the
study, the author recommends that there is a need of initiating
programs that lead to the empowerment of female farmers and focusing on the use of scarce resources. This will lead to increase maize
production and thereby enable female farmers to operate in a zone of
increasing return to scale and contribute to increase the levels of
female farmers’ technical efficiency in Musaza sector. | Keywords : | | Males, Females, Smallholder, Technical efficiency, Maize. |
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