Effects of climate adaptation on technical efficiency of maize production in Northern Ghana

Abstract Climate adaptation is an essential strategy for responding to climate change at local levels and required sustainable food production meet the growing demand. In this light, study analyzed effects of strategies on technical efficiency maize farmers in Northern Ghana. This involved a total 619 that were selected through multistage sampling procedure. A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier was fitted data. From result, major adopted by include row planting, changing planting date, mixed farming, refilling, intercropping. The result shows while significantly leads higher outputs, only crop rotation improve farmers. Other factors influence output are farm size, labor, seed, chemicals. concludes adaptation, particularly, remains region. However, further understanding mechanisms which majority reduce required.