Meta-analysis reveals land fragmentation affects technical inefficiency in malt barley production, highlighting its implications for farmers' productivity.
The review of literature on the impact of land fragmentation on malt barley production technical inefficiency in Ethiopia. Farmers produce farm products at low technical efficiency. Low technical efficiency occurs due to the increase in the number of plots. Different findings on the impact of land fragmentation on malt barley production technical inefficiency by farmers resulted in contrary findings (negative and positive). In the current study in the direction of effect estimation, in this research work, meta-analysis has been done for finding the result on 4 studies selected based on PRISMA criteria. Based on the random effect model, the result indicated that land fragmentation puts the technical inefficiency of malt barely farmers at a disadvantage, but if the effect is not strong enough, it affects their technical efficiency. Furthermore, the subgroup analysis also found the differential effects of land fragmentation on different farmers. The influence of first two study are strong, whereas that of remain two study are weak. So, fewer fragments ought to be provided to all farmers, mainly to the first two study farmers, to increase productivity and the status of food security among farmers.
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