摘要 : This paper estimated farmers’ production efficiency in food crop production under agroforestry system in Edo state, Nigeria. Sixty (60) agroforestry farmers were purposively selected and structured questionnaire was used to elicit... 展开 This paper estimated farmers’ production efficiency in food crop production under agroforestry system in Edo state, Nigeria. Sixty (60) agroforestry farmers were purposively selected and structured questionnaire was used to elicit information from them. A stochastic frontier production fimction using the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) was used as analytical tool. The MLB results revealed that farm size; hired labour and yam seeds are the major factors that influence the output of food cropsThecoefficient of farm size, hired labour and yam seeds were positive and statistically significant at 1% and 5% levels respectively. Cassava was significant but negative implying that cassava had a negative effect on the crop combination and output. The mean economic efBciency (EE) of the farmers is 94% while the minimum and maximum EE are 73% and 98%, respectively. The distribution of EE shows that none of the farmers was able to operate at the frontier level implying that all the farmers are inefficientin food crops production. To attain efficiency level in food production in the study area, farmers should be encouraged through the provision of improved yam seeds, land improvement facilities like fertilizer among others. 收起