Despite the fact that Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in the whole world, production lags
behind the increasing local demand for food and industrial usage, and cassava products are not price
competitive in the global market. This paper uses stochastic production frontier approach to examine
resource use efficiency of cassava farmers in order to provide empirical guide to competitive cassava
production in Nigeria. Production function exhibits constant return to scale and technical efficiency can
be improved by as much as 10 percent. Policy suggestions for technical change and outward shift in
production function for competitive cassava production are provided.