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 …

We estimate the efficiency of groundwater use in cotton production in the Punjab province of Pakistan. We use a survey … tube-well ownership on groundwater use efficiency. We use data envelopment analysis to compute the technical, scale, cost … sub-vector and slack-based models are used to compute groundwater use efficiency. The results indicate low levels of …

improve the quality of life of rural households and increase the productivity and technical efficiency of farmers. This paper … seeks to investigate the impact of financial services on the technical efficiency of rice farmers. Stochastic frontier … level of technical efficiency of major rice production. …

This paper reports on an analysis of technical efficiency and varietal differences in pistachio production in Iran. A … Kalleh- Ghuchi, Fandoghi and Akbari. The technical efficiency indices are computed using three approaches. First, a standard … are expected to differ between the three varieties. Use of this method enabled technical efficiency scores to be corrected …