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Technical efficiency and technology gap in Ghana’s cocoa industry: accounting for farm heterogeneity

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  • Gideon Danso-Abbeam
  • Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi

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This study employs a stochastic metafrontier framework to examine the performance of smallholder cocoa farmers using cross-country survey from Ghana. The results indicate that the output of farmers from all the regions lags behind their potential with the mean technical efficiency of 0.65, 0.76, 0.60 and 0.74 for Western, Brong-Ahafo, Ashanti and Eastern regions, respectively. Each region faces a technology gap when their performances are compared with the technology available in the industry as a whole. The study identified sources of farmers’ technical inefficiency emanating from a combined effects of socioeconomic and farm-specific factors although effects of some variables were not significant. However, farmers in all the regions have the potential to overcome technological constraints and achieve the highest attainable productivity levels. It is, therefore, important that Ghana cocoa board strengthened its strategies to the latter to improve farmers’ technical and managerial skills on the efficient use of resources.

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  • Gideon Danso-Abbeam & Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi, 2020. "Technical efficiency and technology gap in Ghana’s cocoa industry: accounting for farm heterogeneity," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(1), pages 100-112, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:52:y:2020:i:1:p:100-112
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1644439
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    1. Qian Liu & Yongmu Jiang & Carl‐Johan Lagerkvist & Wei Huang, 2023. "Extension services and the technical efficiency of crop‐specific farms in China," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 45(1), pages 436-459, March.
    2. Tanko, Mohammed & Ismaila, Salifu, 2021. "How culture and religion influence the agriculture technology gap in Northern Ghana," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 22(C).

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