@article{Inkoom:305329,
      recid = {305329},
      author = {Inkoom, Emmanuel Wisgtos and Dadzie, Samuel Kwesi Ndzebah   and Ndebugri,  Joseph},
      title = {Promoting Improved Agricultural Technologies to Increase  Smallholder Farm Production Efficiency: Ghanaian Study of  Cassava Farmers },
      journal = {International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics  (IJFAEC)},
      address = {2020-07-20},
      number = {1128-2020-1532},
      month = {Jul},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {Our study provides empirical answer that verifies increase  in productivity, if any, through promotion of improved  agricultural technologies among smallholder food crop  farmers in Africa. We specifically examined Root and Tuber  Improvement and Marketing Programme (RTIMP) technology  effect on improving the production efficiency of cassava  farmers in Ghana. we stratified RTIMP cassava farmers into  above average adopters and below average adopters based on  their adoption intensity scores and further examined  differences in their efficiency levels which we estimated  by employing the stochastic frontier production model  (SFA). In order to empirically establish if RTIMP  technology has actually had effect in improving  productivity of the cassava farmers, we estimated an  adjusted regression model (average treatment effect and  average treatment effect on the treated models). Our  results show that the potential outcome mean technical  efficiency of about 69% achieved by the above average RTIMP  technology adopters is significantly higher than that of  the below average technology adopters which was found to be  about 64%. Our Average Treatment Effect on the Treated  (ATET) estimates confirm that there has been significant  increase in the technical efficiency of cassava farmers  attributable to the adoption of the RTIMP cassava  technology. },
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/305329},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.305329},
}