Resource Use Efficiency and Productivity In a Large Scale Farm: A Case Study Of Birma Agricultural Project Limited Biu L.G.A Borno State
Resource Use Efficiency and Productivity In a Large Scale Farm: A Case Study Of Birma Agricultural Project Limited Biu L.G.A Borno State
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1994
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NDAHI, JAMPADA THLAMA
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Abstract
Birma Agricultural Project Limited is a private Limited
Liability Company, vested with the responsibility of making profit.
It is possible that the farm has not harvested the profit to the
fullest. It is against this background that this study was set to
determine the profitability of the farm, to provide an optimum
plan for the farm, to determine the effeciencies of the resource
use on the farm and to offer recommendations on how best to
organise the farm.
analytical tools were used for this study, namely; Farm
Budgeting analysis, Production function analysis and the Linear
Programming technique. The Net Farm Income for the crop and
livestock sections were found to be N 22,759.27 and Nl,436,557.50
respectively,giving a total Net Farm Income of Nl,459,316.70 .
The return per hectare, man-hour and capital invested under the
crop section were N71.35, N1l.34 and NO,03 respectively, and for
the livestock section, return per capital invested and man-hour
were N3.46 and N715.59 respectively.
The comparison between the marginal value productivities and
marginal factor costs of resources were carried out. All the input
used in the farm were found to be used efficiently.
These resoures were found to have contributed to variations in
the yield and this was shown by high value of R2 .
The optimum farm plan derived for the farm from the use of
linear programming shows that the net farm income of the farm is
N7, 399, 958.40.
The lesult of the sensivity analysis showed that there could
be an increase in the net farm income if five extra units of the
scarce resources are used. The growing of pastures for livestock
section have been recommended for this study. The construction of
storage facilites to bring about improved prices of the farm
produce has been suggested
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A Thesis Submitted to the Postgraduate School, Ahmadu Bello
University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
the Degree of Master of Science in Agricultural Economics.
Department of Agricultural Economics and KuraJ
Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.
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Keywords
Resource,, Efficiency,, Productivity,, Large,, Scale,, Farm:, Case Study, Birma,, Agricultural,, Project,, Limited,, Biu,L.G.A, Borno State.