Assessment of Technical Efficiency and Its Potential Determinants among Small-Scale Coffee Farmers in Rwanda



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DOI: 
10.3390/agriculture9070161
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Licence de la ressource: 
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
Type: 
Article de journal
Journal: 
agriculture
Nombre: 
7
Volume: 
9
Auteur: 
Ngango J.
Kim S.G.
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Description: 

Coffee production is the main economic activity for smallholder farmers in Rwanda; it is also a major export crop. However, Rwandan coffee production has been facing structural changes with a significant decline in production. Considering the importance of the coffee sector to rural livelihoods and its potential role in export earnings, there is a need to ensure that small-scale coffee farmers efficiently use scarce resources in their production activities. Thus, this study estimates the technical efficiency and possible sources of inefficiency in small-scale coffee farming in the Northern Province of Rwanda. Three hundred and twenty coffee farmers are sampled to carry out a simultaneous estimation of the stochastic production frontier and technical inefficiency model

Αnnée de publication: 
2019
Μots-clés: 
coffee production
technical efficiency
stochastic frontier analysis
small-scale farmers in Rwanda