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DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

Analysis of technical efficiency among youth involved in crop production in Njombe Region, Tanzania

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Article: 2103923 | Received 14 Aug 2021, Accepted 17 Jul 2022, Published online: 02 Sep 2022

Figures & data

Table 1. Inefficiency variables measurement with their expected sign

Table 2. Summary of descriptive statistics of key variables used in the analysis

Table 3. Hypothesis testing of frontier and technical inefficiency models with variances

Table 4. Maximum likelihood estimates of the Frontier model

Table 5. Elasticity of output with respect to inputs

Figure 1. Distribution of TE of youth crop farmers in Njombe.

Figure 1. Distribution of TE of youth crop farmers in Njombe.

Table 6. Technical efficiency farm size and income differences between males and females

Table 7. Two-sample t-test with equal variance among male and female youth TE

Table 8. Technical efficiency by district

Table 9. Two-sample t-test with equal variances for districts’ technical efficiency