International Journal of Research & Review (www.gkpublication.in) 1 Vol.4; Issue: 3; March 2017 International Journal of Research and Review www.ijrrjournal.com E-ISSN: 2349-9788; P-ISSN: 2454-2237 Original Research Article Estimation Technical Efficiency and Socioeconomic Characteristics Affect that Technical Efficiency of Crop production in the Gezira scheme, Sudan Babiker O. Mahgoub, Omima A. Mirghani, Sara A.E. Ali Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Bakht Al Ruda, EL- Dueim, Sudan Corresponding Author: Babiker O. Mahgoub ABSTRACT The primary aims of this study were estimation of technical efficiency for farmers in producing crops and determine the socioeconomic characteristics of farmers’ that influence the level of technical efficiency for crop production in the Gezira scheme. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study purposes. Stochastic frontier production function was estimated using a sample of 150 farmers were collected during season 2011/2012 in the Gezira Scheme. The results showed that the mean technical efficiency of cotton, sorghum, groundnut, and wheat productions are 63%, 75%, 65%, and 90% respectively, this implying that scope to increase its crops yield through the better use of the farmers available resources are exist. Also the results revealed that socioeconomic characteristics of farmers’ for affect on technical efficiency in general trend for production. Keywords: Efficiency, crop production, socioeconomic characteristics, Gezira scheme, Sudan. INTRODUCTION The personal characteristics of farmers, such as the origin, the goals and the value of farmers have been an essential element in determining the resource structure of agriculture. [1] Socioeconomic characteristics of tenants are expected to have a great effect on the production process in the study area as well as their overall technical efficiency in production. They are expected to have direct and indirect effects on the farmers’ performance and output Factors such as ages, family status, and education have great relevance to the pattern of agriculture and how farmers response to change. A Farmers age is one of his demographic characteristic which affects his decision and his attitude toward accepting new ideas. [2] Education level is an important factor that influences the economic situation of the different human groups. The level of farmer education has important impact on the agricultural production, literacy influenced the performance of the cultural practices in the field and educated farmers are more willing to adopt innovation which is thought to be risky then less educated farmers. [3] Practicing cultural operations of crops is not an easy job, because crops activities require regular practices, these practices cannot be accomplished properly by one person, so allocating these practices among family members lead to the fact that each practice will be accomplished properly particularly if the size of household is large. [4] The married tenants expect to have children staying with them, thus implying that these farmers could have access to family labour. The more the number of wives, expected to be the larger the family size which may provide more family labour in production than other households with different marital status. The Gezira scheme is the area that