ABSTRACT

Productivity generally denotes the relationship between output of goods and services and the resource inputs both human and material utilized n producing those goods and services It is simply the yield of resources utilized in the production process In an economic context, productivity may be defined as an output per unit of some input While the output may be measured in weight, money energy or protein while the input may be fuel, fertilizer. labour, or any other resource utilized including time (Beet. 1990). These definitions of productivity denote the concept of average productivity Productivity may also be defined as the increment in value product per unit time or per unit of resources such as land labour. capital. management etc. This is the marginal concept of productivity Agricultural productivity generally relates to the index of the value of agricultural production or output to the index of the value of inputs used in its production. Measurement of agricultural productivity may be in terms of each of the different factor inputs (land. capital labour. management) or in terms of aggregate output-input ratios