Effects of Land Fragmentation on Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the extent of land fragmentation in Nigeria, where it has become a major agricultural and land reform issue. Data for the study were obtained from the 2013 General Household Survey (GHS). The analysis of the data involved the use of descriptive statistics and stochastic production function. Among the three different stochastic frontier model specifications, the truncated normal distribution was selected because it gave more robust results than half-normal and exponential models. The model was then used to measure the technical efficiency level. The result revealed that the technical efficiencies for the sampled farmers were less than one indicating that all the sample farmers were operating below production frontiers. The mean technical of farmers was 0 .50. Age, education, fertilizer usage, distance to the household were the significant determinants of land fragmentation in Nigeria The study discovered that there exists a negative and significant relationship between land fragmentation and farmers productivity in Nigeria.