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    Assessing beekeeping potential in Oyo State, Nigeria

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    Date
    2018-11
    Author
    Ayodeji, B.T.
    Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M.
    Olalekan, O.S.
    Roland, O.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    This paper investigated the technical efficiency and its correlates as well as the profitability status of honey enterprise in Oyo State, Nigeria. A hundred and twenty respondents were sampled using multiple stage sampling techniques and questionnaire was administered to elicit the needed responses. The non-deterministic nature of producing honey informed the use of stochastic production model to assess beekeepers’ technical efficiency while gross margin analysis was adopted to illuminate how profitable honey production is in the area under consideration. The descriptive statistics revealed important socio-economic attributes of beekeepers in relation to beekeeping while the Maximum Likelihood Estimate (MLE) revealed the technical efficiency deciles of beekers within the production possibility frontier. Result revealed that beekeepers are operating close to the frontier of production using the available resources. The elasticity of production was greater than 1, showing an increasing return to scale of production while the budgetary analysis revealed that honey production is profitable. Consequent on the research outcome, beekeeping enterprise has the potential to generate substantial income, generate employment opportunity and meet the nutritional needs of Nigerian populace.
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/5235
    Non-IITA Authors ORCID
    DONTSOP NGUEZET Paul Martinhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5098-1853
    Research Themes
    SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRIBUSINESS
    IITA Subjects
    Agribusiness
    Agrovoc Terms
    Technical; Efficiency; Maximum; Estimate; Beekeepers; Elasticity; Gross Margin
    Regions
    Africa; West Africa
    Countries
    Nigeria
    Journals
    International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research
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