@article{MAKHILLAJ202015620720,
    title = {Resource use Efficiency among Rain-Fed and Non-Rainfed Catfish Farmers in South West and
North Central Nigeria},
    journal = {Agricultural Journal},
    volume = {15},
    number = {6},
    pages = {176-184},
    year = {2020},
    issn = {1816-9155},
    doi = {aj.2020.176.184},
    url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1816-9155&doi=aj.2020.176.184},
    author = {I.J. and},
    keywords = {Resource use,catfish production,technical efficiency,Nigeria},
    abstract = {Efficient use of resources has been identified as
one of the major bane of catfish production in Nigeria.
Thus, this study examined the resource use efficiency
among rain-fed and non-rain-fed catfish production in
South West (Oyo) and North Central (Kwara) in Nigeria.
Well-structured questionnaire was used to obtained
information from 289 farmers, 149 in Southwest (Oyo
state) and 140 from North central (Kwara state) catfish
farmers through a multi-stage random sampling.
Descriptive Statistics and Stochastic Frontier Analysis
were employed to analyse the data obtained. Findings
shows that majority 69.20% of the farmers were males
while 30.8% were females, 75.92% of the farmers
practiced rain-fed catfish farming while 24.08% practiced
non-rain-fed fish farming. Majority of the farmers have
education 88.68% while only 11.42% have no education.
Majority of the farmers 59.86% have <5 household
members while 32.18% has between 6-10 household
members with only 7.96% having members >11 while
32.53% of the sampled farmers fall between 20-40 years
while 52.94% fall between 41-60 years of age while
14.53% are above 61 years old. The result of the
Stochastic Frontier Analysis indicated that number of fish
stocked (Juvenile and fingerlings), pond sizes, labour,
feeds and water used are the major determinant of
technical efficiency among catfish farmers in Southwest
(Oyo-state) and Northwest (Kwara state) Nigeria. The
technical inefficiency of the catfish farmers were
determined by age, education level, sex, farming
experience, access to cooperative associations and
household sizes. It is therefore, recommended that the
catfish farmers should be support to improve their
management practices and enhance their resource use
skills by subsidizing fish inputs. Also, human capacity
development in aquaculture production through extensive
training sessions should be prioritized to enhance their
resource use knowledge.}
    }