ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF GREEN MUNG BEANS IN JILLE DHUMMUGA WEREDA AMHARA NATIONAL REGIONAL STATE OROMIA ZONE, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Dry land areas are experiencing low agricultural yields due to severe water shortages weather variability and salinity, leading to food scarcity. Green mungbean is gaining attention as a short-season crop that can tolerate dry land conditions, and fix atmospheric nitrogen and decreasing soil nutrient depletion. Increasing productivity and efficiency of green mungbean production in particular could be an important role towards achieving food security. This study was conducted to assess the technical efficiency and factors affecting efficiency of green mungbean production in Jille Dhummuga district of Oromia Zone Amhara regional state, Ethiopia. Both primary and secondary data sources were used in this study. The primary data relating to farm production, input usage, and socioeconomic and institutional factors were collected during 2017/18 cropping year through a structured questionnaire from randomly selected 170 green mungbean farmers. The stochastic frontier and translog functional form with a one-step approach were employed to assess efficiency and factors affecting efficiency in mungbean production. The mean technical efficiencies were found to be 84.9% for mungbean production. This implies that it is possible to increase green mung bean yield up to 15.1%. The production efficiency of this green mungbean farming was determined by gender, age, education, farm size, farm experience, livestock population, family size variability and climate change. Policy implications drawn from this study include support initiatives like improving access of improved seed quality, productive agronomic practise gender-sensitive agricultural intervention; improvement, encouraging group approach extension service, scaling out of best practices and promotion to the multi-dimensional importance of green mungbean.