Measuring Farm-level Technical Efficiency of Urban Agriculture in Tanzanian Towns: The Policy Implications

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dc.creatorMwajombe, Kizito K.
dc.creatorMlozi, Malongo R. S.
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-01T05:15:11Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-05T07:33:09Z
dc.date.available2015-04-01T05:15:11Z
dc.date.created2015-04-01T05:15:11Z
dc.date.issued2015-01-09
dc.description.abstractTechnical Efficiency Indices of Urban Agriculture (UA) were determined using the stochastic frontier production function which incorporates a model of technical inefficiency effects. In 2010, farm-level data of 270 urban agriculture farmers in Tanzanian urban wards of towns of Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Dodoma was obtained using semi-structured questionnaires. The parameters were estimated simultaneously with those of the model of inefficiency effects. Using the maximum likelihood estimation technique, asymptotic parameter estimates were evaluated to describe efficiency determinants. Study results revealed that a mean technical efficiency index (TEI) of 0.72 was achieved implying that output from urban agriculture production could be increased by 28% using available technologies. Despite of urban farmers having entrepreneurial acumen, they faced several challenges in resource allocation. Land size, total variable costs, and extension service charges negatively impacted on TEI. The study recommends that the government using urban agriculture and livestock extension agents should explore profitable levels for promoting UA enterprises to ascertain profitable TEI levels and UA units.
dc.identifierMwajombe, K. K., & Mlozi, M. R. (2015). Measuring Farm-level Technical Efficiency of Urban Agriculture in Tanzanian Towns: The Policy Implications. World Journal of Social Science, 2(1): 62-72.
dc.identifier2329-9347
dc.identifierE-ISSN 2329-9355
dc.identifierdoi:10.5430/wjss.v2n1p62
dc.identifierhttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/577
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.costech.or.tz/handle/20.500.14732/98548
dc.languageen
dc.languageen
dc.languageen
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSciedu Press
dc.subjectUrban agriculture
dc.subjectTechnical efficiency index
dc.subjectResource allocation
dc.subjectExtension agents
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.subjectPolicy implications
dc.titleMeasuring Farm-level Technical Efficiency of Urban Agriculture in Tanzanian Towns: The Policy Implications
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