*2.1.1 Age*

Age is one of the important determinants of agricultural production because age of farmers may affect adoption of agricultural innovations. Older farmers were more technically efficient compared to younger farmers in tomato production at Kwara and Adamawa states, Nigeria [45, 46]. Contrarily, an increase in farmer's age was found to increase technical inefficiency in tomato production in Benue State [11]. In other countries in Africa, older farmers are more technically efficient than their younger counterparts in Cameroon and Swaziland [39, 47]. They attributed this to their respective years of experience in the production of the commodity. Succinctly, the impact of age on technical efficiency of tomato production is inconclusive due to the various outcomes of the impact on tomato production.
