Vegetables are complementary foods of the first order and are more important to man's health than product of animal origin since nobody will suffer from eating quite large different vegetables whereas eating too much meat is pointless and may cause health problems. The study was designed to examine the profitability and measure the level of technical efficiency of dry season vegetable producers using stochastic frontier production function. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 60

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... getable farmers in the study area. Cost and return analysis revealed that dry season vegetable enterprise is profitable in the area, with positive gross margin/ha N47,372.08 ($364.40), positive Net profit/ha N43,957.08 ($338.13) and a benefit-cost ratio of 2.18. The estimated farm technical efficiency ranges from 75% to 98% with a mean of 92%. This indicates that ample opportunity exists for the producers to increase their productivity and income through a more efficiency utilization of productive resources. Inefficiency determinants are all directly related to technical efficiency but are not significantly determined the technical efficiency of the producers.