@article{Mushunje:19084,
      recid = {19084},
      author = {Mushunje, Abbyssinia and Belete, Abenet and Fraser, Gavin  C.G.},
      title = {TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF RESETTLEMENT FARMERS OF ZIMBABWE},
      address = {2003},
      number = {344-2016-15091},
      series = {41st Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics  Association of South Africa, CSIR conference centre,  Pretoria, 2 October 2003.},
      pages = {12},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {This paper examines the technical efficiency of the  resettlement sector of the agricultural system in Zimbabwe.  The land reform programme aims to redistribute land from  large-scale commercial farmers to the small-scale peasantry  sector so as to reduce rural poverty. Since such an  agrarian reform could result in higher output, higher  labour absorption, and a more equitable distribution of  income, it is important to assess the level of efficiency  of the beneficiaries of this programme. The stochastic  frontier function model of the Cobb-Douglas type was used  to determine the technical efficiency of a group of 44  cotton farmers from Mutanda resettlement scheme of  Manicaland province. Technical inefficiency effects are  estimated and are assumed to be a function of other  observable variables related to the farming  operations.

The results reveal some technical efficiency  levels of the sample farmers that are varied widely,  ranging from 22 per cent to 99 percent, with a mean value  of about 71%. The technical inefficiency effects are found  to be significant at the 25 per cent level. Technical  inefficiency of cotton production decreased with increased  family size and age of the head of household, but increased  with farm size and education level of head of household.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/19084},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.19084},
}