An analysis of productivity and technical efficiency of conservation agriculture in Malawi: A case of Nkhotakota district
Abstract
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Maize productivity, measured as the amount of output for a
given input set, is lower than it could be in Malawi due to poor
access to agricultural inputs and environmental depletion
especially declining soil fertility. Malawi is promoting
conservation agriculture in order to reverse the trend. The
overall objective of this study is to determine economic
performance of conservation agriculture in Malawi. The study
will apply a normalized translog yield response model to assess
productivity and a stochastic frontier production model (SFPM)
to assess technical efficiency (TE) of conservation agriculture
(CA). The study has just been initiated.
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