Economic Efficiency of Poultry Egg Production in Kogi State, Nigeria.

Abstract

The study assess the determinants of efficiency of poultry egg production in Ogori-Magongo Local government Area of Kogi State. Data was collected through a multi-stage sampling technique and analyzed using both descriptive and stochastic production frontier. The result revealed that feed intake and utility were the most important inputs in poultry egg production in the area. Furthermore, the study found the average efficiency estimate to be 88.77% and this was influenced positively by education, access to credit and experiences. However, about 11.23% of the profit was lost to technique inefficiency. Findings from the study also showed that farmers were operating in the stage one of production 1.02, which is the area of increasing returns to scale. The study thus recommended that efforts should be made at ensuring the poultry farmers have access to credit and educational programmes should be organized to sensitize farmers more on how to to improve on their efficiencies level. It is also recommended that farmers increase their stock of birds, feeds and utilities in other to operate at the stage two of production