Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

AGE 501 — Agricultural Production Economics

AGE department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

critique common production functions, specify production functions and determine the optimal level of production and input/factor use
derive equations for farm input demand and output supply functions
use production data to estimate technical, allocative and economic efficiencies; and
use linear programming for farm decision making

Course contents

The nature of agricultural production problems, goals and objectives of agricultural production. Principles of resources use with particular reference to the optimum level of resources use. Principles of optimum product combination. Empirical production functions. Supply and cost elasticity.

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AGE 501 — Agricultural Production Economics

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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