Few efficiency studies, to date, have been conducted for Central Asian countries. This article fills the gap in the literature by conducting a frontier efficiency analysis using survey data obtained from the cotton producing farms in North-western Uzbekistan. The results of the restricted...

This paper attempts to estimate overall inefficiency of the sample of vegetable farms in Uzbekistan. Using the duality between the directional input distance function (DIDF) and the cost function, the study reports allocative inefficiency scores in addition to technical inefficiency in the...

Increased technical and scale efficiency in the production of wheat has been of major interest for farmers and administrators alike in Uzbekistan particularly since wheat became a strategic crop to achieve the goal of food self-sufficiency soon after the country's independence in 1991. A pioneer...