| Abstrakt: |
Rabbit farmers will mobilize and transform productive resources into output without waste if they are to be technically efficient. The study was carried out to measure technical efficiency of rabbit farmers in southwest, Nigeria. A total of 196 respondents were surveyed using copies of well-structured of questionnaire and multistage sampling procedure was employed for the selection of respondents reached and interviewed. From the result, rabbit farmers in the study area produced an average of seven rabbits per month while variables such as total space, labour, water, veterinary drug, years of experience and number of extension contacts were found to significantly increased farms' technical efficiency at various conventional levels of 1%, 5% and 10% respectively. The minimum and maximum efficiency of farmers were 0.11 and 0.95 which were unevenly distributed across farms. Rate of Technical Substitution was 0.589 which indicates that rabbit farmers operate in stage II of the technical efficiency frontier which is expected of rational farmers. Ordinary least square estimation results revealed that all the modeled basic inputs increased rabbits output significantly. It was recommended that appropriate education and extension services be made available to rabbit farmers for better productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
