Ichaou MOUNIROU and Ismaïla BALOGOUN
This paper assesses the socio-economic and demographic determinants the level technical efficiency in the soybeans’ production in the commune of Savé. The Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function was estimated using the program frontier of the STATA software 11. The results obtained show that producers are in the whole ineffective with 56% as technical efficiency score. The distribution of the efficiency indices shows that on a sample of 66 producers, 25 (either 37.87% of the sample) have registered the best scores (between 80 to 99%). This distribution has also revealed that small operators are more effective than the large operators technically. For a better level of effectiveness of concrete actions must be orientated toward certain exogenous factors such as the level of instruction, training, the sex and the area sown. Finally the article suggests producers a rationalization of the areas sown to operate an optimal combination of the factors available to augment yields in soybeans and in turn the improvement of the level of technical efficiency.
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