Analysis of Resource-use Efficiency and Productivity of Residual Soil Moisture Tomato Production in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Type Journal Article - International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences
Title Analysis of Resource-use Efficiency and Productivity of Residual Soil Moisture Tomato Production in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Author(s)
Volume 51
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2015
Page numbers 152-157
URL http://www.scipress.com/ILSHS.51.152.pdf
Abstract
This study was conducted to examine the resource-use efficiency and productivity of residual
soil moisture tomato production Kaduna state, Nigeria. Descriptive statistics and production
function analysis were used to analyze the data. The result showed that the production function
analysis showed that 54.55% of the residual soil moisture tomato yields among the sampled farmers
were explained by the specified inputs. The coefficients of land and labour, and Seed/seedlings
significantly influence the output of residual soil moisture of tomato production. Similarly, land and
seed were under-utilized, while labour is the most was over used. To improve the efficiency of
inputs used, the study recommends that farmer’s access to modern technologies should be enhance,
there should be effective and efficient extension service, easy access to formal credit facilities and
also encourage them to form cooperative societies to enable them procure their inputs at reduce rate.

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