evaluate technical change efficiency and technological efficiency change across the country’s 12 provinces. A decomposition of … efficiency change over the reference period. The study further examined the effect of land quality, agriculture labor, and …

The technical and allocative efficiency of broadacre farmers in a southern region of Western Australia is investigated … some inefficiency in each year, which decreases over time. The distributions of technical efficiency in each year are … positively skewed toward higher efficiency levels, indicating a majority of farms produce close to their maximum technical …

We extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of a sample of ethanol plants into … because they can secure more favorable prices (higher marketing efficiency) and execute production plans accordingly (higher … allocative efficiency). This may rationalize the increase in the size of the average plant observed in the industry in recent …

envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of plants into conventional sources (technical and allocative … efficiency) and a new component we call marketing efficiency. The latter measure allows us to evaluate plants’ ability to …

In this paper we analyse the technical efficiency of cotton farmers in the Punjab Province in Pakistan. Technical … efficiency is measured relative to a stochastic frontier production function (SFPF). The estimated model includes a function in … which technical efficiency is made an explicit function of firm specific factors (involving the levels of education and …

bootstrapped truncated regression shows that efficiency differences between two regions are explained by the timely availability of … the water to a significant extent. We suggest that future sectoral policies should be designed to address the efficiency …

A balanced panel of data is used to estimate technical efficiency, employing a fixed-effects stochastic frontier … specification for wool producers in Australia. Both point estimates and confidence intervals for technical efficiency are reported … Schmidt (2000). The confidence intervals make explicit the precision of the technical efficiency estimates and underscore the …

The study investigated whether socio-cultural factors accentuate technical efficiency of yam farmers in Kogi State … there is more number of socio-cultural factors that determine the level of technical efficiency of yam farmers than the …

This article investigates the production efficiency of rice farming in Sri Lanka using cross section survey data of 90 … farms. Past studies on rice farming have mostly focused on technical efficiency (TE). Here, we examine technical efficiency …, allocative efficiency (AE) and cost efficiency (CE) using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. On average, the farms …

improving crop production and knowledge about the technical efficiency of crop farms is essential in guiding policy decisions …. This paper examined the technical efficiency of 189 crop farms in Northern Ghana using data envelopment analysis (DEA) with … bootstrapping. We found that bias-corrected average technical efficiency of the sample farms is 77.26%. The estimated scale …