| Abstract: | Dry land areas are experiencing low agricultural yields due to severe water shortages
weather variability and salinity, leading to food scarcity. Green mungbean is gaining
attention as a short-season crop that can tolerate dry land conditions, and fix
atmospheric nitrogen and decreasing soil nutrient depletion. Increasing productivity and
efficiency of green mungbean production in particular could be an important role
towards achieving food security. This study was conducted to assess the technical
efficiency and factors affecting efficiency of green mungbean production in Jille
Dhummuga district of Oromia Zone Amhara regional state, Ethiopia. Both primary and
secondary data sources were used in this study. The primary data relating to farm
production, input usage, and socioeconomic and institutional factors were collected
during 2017/18 cropping year through a structured questionnaire from randomly selected
170 green mungbean farmers. The stochastic frontier and translog functional form with a
one-step approach were employed to assess efficiency and factors affecting efficiency in
mungbean production. The mean technical efficiencies were found to be 84.9% for
mungbean production. This implies that it is possible to increase green mung bean yield
up to 15.1%. The production efficiency of this green mungbean farming was determined
by gender, age, education, farm size, farm experience, livestock population, family size
variability and climate change. Policy implications drawn from this study include support
initiatives like improving access of improved seed quality, productive agronomic practise
gender-sensitive agricultural intervention; improvement, encouraging group approach
extension service, scaling out of best practices and promotion to the multi-dimensional
importance of green mungbean. |
