ESTIMATION OF EFFICIENCY DIFFERENTIALS IN HONEY BEE ENTERPRISES: IMPLICATIONS FOR HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY IN KEBBI AND KWARA STATES OF NIGERIA
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2016
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Gashua Journal of Irrigation and Desertification Studies
Abstract
The total honey produced in Nigeria is usually inadequate, not documented and the country only
meets the domestic consumption partly from the public based farm, local farmers and mostly
import from other countries.This paper examines the Technical Efficiency (TE) gaps between
traditional and modern honey bee enterprise in Kwara and Kebbi States, Nigeria. The multistage
sampling technique was employed in randomly selecting 80 beekeepers comprising 30
traditional beekeepers from each State and 20 modern beekeepers from both States. The main
tools of analysis were descriptive and inferential statistics. Empirical result showed that the mean
TE value for modern production system was about 0.84 compared to traditional unit with 0.59.
This is an indication that on the average, the bee farmers were operating TE of 0.16 and 0.41
below the frontier for modern and traditional systems respectively. TE coefficients of number of
hives (0.29); adjusted hired labour (0.21) and number of baits (0.08) in modern bee farming and
traditional bee farming adjusted family labour and number of baits coefficients (-0.05; 0.43)
shown that these variables increased TE. A positive mean difference of about ₦6,752 in income
was realized among bee farms that adopt new bee farm equipments. The demand-supply gap of
honey products could be bridged and sustainable increased output could be achieved if farmers
adopt a new techniques and improved their technically efficiency as ample opportunity still exist
to move closer to frontier.