Abstract:
This study is conducted to analyze technical efficiency of wheat production in Yilmana
Densa District during the 2019 production year. The study is conducted using acrosssectional
data collected from 194 sample households based on multistage random
sampling technique. The stochastic production frontier and Tobit model were applied to
address the objectives. The estimated stochastic production frontier model reveals that the
input variables like labor, oxen, improved seed and chemical fertilizer were the
significant variables to increase the quantity of wheat output. The mean level of technical
efficiency in the study area is 37 percent, indicating that the production of wheat can be
increased by 63 percent given the existing technological level. The discrepancy ratio
gamma indicated that 96 percent of the total variation from the frontier comes due to
technical inefficiency while the remaining 4 percent comes due to factors outside of
farmer's control. Among the factors that affect technical efficiency; sex, age, secondary
school education, extension contact, proximity, and membership affects technical
inefficiency negatively. Besides, age square, family size, amount of credit, land
fragmentation, illiterate, primary school education and manure application influence
technical inefficiency positively. Hence, emphasis should be given to decrease the
inefficiency level of farmers through enabling them to get support by extension experts
on the way of the utilization of improved seed and sufficient fertilizer instead of only
their provision.