Artisanal
fishing household’s production is investigated using stochastic frontier
analysis through Cobb-Douglas production function, which incorporates an
inefficiency effects model. Descriptive statistics and profitability index were
also used to analyzed the data collected. One hundred and twenty eight
households were randomly picked through multistage techniques in the Niger
Delta Region of Nigeria. Primary data were chosen using structured
questionnaire and interview schedule. Results indicates that greater part of
respondents were males with an average age of 42 years who were married with
household size of 6 persons. Very many of them did not belong to cooperative
society with high educational level. The result indicates that labour, baits
and capital inputs were significantly related to output. The average technical
efficiency was 73%. This means that the households can still improve their
efficiency level by 27%. The structure of production suggests that the returns
to scale was 0.9584. The estimated gamma
parameter was 0.9423 and was significant at 5% level. Access to credit,
membership of cooperative society and fishing experience had an inverse
relationship with technical inefficiency while age, fishing distance, gender,
number of trips and oil spill had a direct relationship with inefficiency. Artisanal fishing was found to be
profitable with a net farm income of N135261.21
and a benefit cost ratio (BCR) of N1.20k.
The major constraint to artisanal fishing was pollution. Therefore, the study
calls for policies that increases the security of oil pipelines in order to
stem the tide of oil spillage and invariably water pollution.
oil exploitation technical efficiency artisanal households stochastic frontier
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Konular | Balıkçılık Yönetimi |
Bölüm | Makaleler |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 15 Eylül 2019 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 8 Aralık 2018 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2019Cilt: 36 Sayı: 3 |