The study examined the non-parametric analysis of production efficiency of poultry eggs farmers in
the Delta State Nigeria. Data used for the study were obtained using structured questionnaires administered
to 120 randomly selected poultry farmers in four Local Government Areas of the State. Data envelopment
analysis and Cobb- Douglas production function wwere used to analyze the data. The result showed that 30%
of the poultry farmers in the study area were operating at frontier and optimum level of production with mean
technical efficiency of 1.00. This implies that 70% of the poultry farmers in the study area can still improve on
their level of efficiency through better utilization of available resources, given the current state of technology.
The results of the Cobb-Douglas analysis of factors affecting the output of poultry farmers showed that stock
capacity (number of birds), feed and medication cost positively and significantly affected the output of the
poultry farmers in the study area. The study further showed that most of the poultry farms could reduce total
expenditures on the number of birds purchased, feed, labour, medication and capital inputs by 20.43%, 3.20%,
3.53%, 7.10% and 31.80% respectively without reducing their current level of production. It is recommended
that poultry farmers in the study area should form cooperative societies so as to enable them have access to
productive inputs that will enable them expand. This will as well increase efficiency of resource utilization. Also,
since few farms were robustly efficient, the farmers in the study area should organized themselves with the
assistance of extension agents in the State into groups to learn the best farm practices carried out on those
farms. This will go a long way to increase the efficiency level of the farmers in the study area