The productive efficiencies of traditional and hybrid maize producers in eastern Ethiopia are derived using an … efficiency decomposition technique that we extend to account for scale effects. The paper illustrates the sensitivity of the … agricultural technologies have not been realised in poor countries like Ethiopia due mainly to poor support services, including …

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of … the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum …. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect productivity but also indirectly through efficiency. If productivity and …

This study examines the relative technical efficiency of 12 hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia. Using six-year-round panel … data for the period between 2007/08 and 2012/13, this study examines the technical efficiency, total factor productivity … productivity index used to estimate relative technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and total factor productivity index of …

The meta-frontier model technique is employed to compare the technical efficiency levels of improved and local maize … pooled data. Maize farms generally exhibit increasing returns to scale (IRS) in the study area. The mean technical efficiency …, education, extension contacts, ready market availability and credit that contribute positively to farmers’ efficiency to further …