The objective of this study is to assess the technical efficient frontier of rice farms using input-oriented data envelopment analysis. The frontier represents the minimum applicable level of efficiency of inputs given the current level of yields, technologies, and managerial ability among the...

The present study uses local maximum likelihood (LML) methods recently proposed by Kumbhakar et al. (2007) to assess the technical efficiency of arable crop Kansas farms. LML techniques overcome the most relevant limitations associated to mainstream parametric stochastic frontier models. Results...

The study quantitatively determine the impact of policy changes on technical efficiency of small scale food crop farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria, using the stochastic frontier methodology. Given the specifications of the Cobb-Douglas Stochastic frontier models, the results show that the...

Despite increases in the cultivation of pepper among farmers in South-West Nigeria, massive transportation of pepper from the Northern parts of the country and seasonal fluctuation in prices are still very common. Given a good knowledge of the efficiency levels of various production units...

This paper attempts to identify sources of resource use inefficiency for cotton production in Pakistan's Punjab. The use of a non-parametric method, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), is developed to study the relative technical and allocative efficiencies of individual farms which use similar...

1. Overview of Neoclassical Production Economics- Editors -- 2. Duality in Production Diewert (agreed) -- 3. Multiproduct Technologies Fare--agreed -- 4. Elasticities of Substitution Russell--agreed -- 5. Conceptualization and Measurement of Technical Change and Productivity Growth Hulten or...

Overview of Neoclassical Production Economics- Editors -- 2. Duality in Production Diewert (agreed) -- 3. Multiproduct Technologies Fare--agreed -- 4. Elasticities of Substitution Russell--agreed -- 5. Conceptualization and Measurement of Technical Change and Productivity Growth Hulten or...

The measurement of productivity fluctuations has been the focus of decades-long interest. In addition to broad structural forces driving productivity changes, there is more recent interest in measuring and identifying the heterogeneous forces driving these changes. A major force is...

The objective of this study was to analyze the aggregate agriculture productionfunction for the state of Minas Gerais. The analysis was accomplished in two phases.First, we separate the municipalities in terms of the productive efficiency, using thenon-parametric approach of data envelopment...