The study was aimed to analyze productivity and to link the observed technical efficiency levels to farmers’ socioeconomic and institutional characteristics in Boricha Woreda, Southern Ethiopia. A multi- stage sampling technique was used to select 204 sample farmers to obtain data pertaining to farm production, input usage, and other factors including socioeconomic and institutional factors during the year of 2013. In the analysis, frontier 4.1c software was used to determine the levels of technical efficiency. Thus, the mean technical efficiency was 72 percent. It was established from a stochastic frontier model that maize yield was positively influenced by seed, labor, oxen, farm size, DAP and Urea fertilizers. Tobit model revealed that factors that significantly affected the technical efficiency were age, training, membership to cooperatives, livestock, off-farm income, distance to extension centers, utilization of credit and family size of household. Thus, this study recommended policies targeting in providing trainings and education for smallholder maize producers would promote maize productivity and efficiency of smallholder maize producers.
