Technical efficiency of garlic production under rain fed agriculture in Northwest Ethiopia: Stochastic frontier approach

The article focuses on evaluating the technical efficiency of garlic production in northwest Ethiopia. average yield region was lower than its potential, indicating a need to improve farming practices. Data were collected from 359 producers using random sampling. Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier function used estimate efficiency, which found be 73%. This means that about 27% potential output lost due inefficiency. Factors such as land size, seed, fertilizer, insecticide, and oxen days have positive significant impact production. On other hand, factors like age, extension contact, distance, renting land, disease shock, access finance, information linked study suggests investing high-quality seeds, improved inputs, can enhance by leveraging high level.