The effect of producer groups on the productivity and technical efficiency of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana.

ABSTRACT: Producer groups are influential in Ghana's cocoa value chain. They facilitate training, extension, education and inputs to their members. Still, there is no study on the impact of these producer groups on the technical efficiency and productivity of smallholder cocoa farmers. Using data from 217 and 199 members and non-members of cocoa producer groups, this study aimed to analyse producer groups' impact on smallholder farmers' technical efficiency and yield. The truncated normal distribution stochastic frontier model was adopted to estimate the farmers' technical efficiency. Since the model showed an issue of inefficiency among the farmers, we added socio-demographic and institutional variables to account for determinants of inefficiency. Finally, we adopted an endogenous treatment regress

SUBMITTER: Donkor E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10712861 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature