Determinants of Technical Efficiency on Pineapple Farming

Scientific Reports, 2021

Rice is a staple food in East Java, and the average consumption is 100 kg/capita/year. However, rice productivity has declined dramatically in recent years. Food security can be reached by improving the technical efficiency of rice farming, especially in rice farming centers such as East Java Province. This study aims to measure technical efficiency and its determinants using two limit tobit. And it also aims to examine the effect of the technical efficiency of rice farming on food security using logit regression. Technical efficiency will be measured by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The results show that the technical efficiency of rice farming is very low in East Java. Government assistance, irrigation, and extension have a significant effect on technical efficiency. Meanwhile, membership of farmer organization has no effect on technical efficiency. Around 69% of farmers can be categorized as food secure households. The estimation of logit regression shows that household ...

IOSR Journals , 2019

This paper estimates the technical efficiency of rice farms in Kebbi State utilizing Data Envelopment Analysis and Tobit regression. Primary data were collected using structured questionnaires from a sample of 231 rice producers surveyed in 2016 production season. The finding reveals that the mean technical efficiency estimates was 65.6 percent. This implies that 34.4 percent of potential output is lost due to technical inefficiency. The average input slacks for seeds, fertilizer, agrochemicals and labour were found to be 0.103, 0.838, 0.071 and 0.170 individually. This implies excess used of these inputs by their respective quantities. The output slack was found to be zero, meaning that no excess output was recorded. Education, extension contact and planting technology were the factors that significantly decreased the technical inefficiency of the farmers in the research area. The study concluded that most of the rice farmers in the investigation area are producing below the best possible output and have the opportunity to increase their output by 34.4 percent simply by using the technology of the best practice farm.

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2015

Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 2016

Rice is the basic food, most important source of employment and income as well as the main cultivation activity of paddy farmers in northern region of Malaysia. The efficiency of rice production has been of longstanding interest to the responsible organization in agriculture. This paper attempts to study the efficiency of paddy farmers in Kedah using Data Envelopment Analysis model. Four districts have been selected with the total respondents of 200. Overall average performance of paddy farmers is 0.787. The paddy farmers in Kepala Batas are the most efficient followed by Kubang Pasu, Kerpan and Kubang Pasu. Only few paddy farmers in Kubang Sepat, Kubang Pasu and Kerpan are showing very low relative performances,, on the other hand, not a single farmer in Kepala Batas district shows such low performance. By knowing the existing efficiency level of paddy farmers, the government can take viable plans or actions to increase the efficiency of paddy farmers in Kedah.

AIMS Agriculture and Food

Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 12(1): 24-29, June, 2022

This study aimed at analyzing technical efficiency and its determinants among tobacco producers in Uganda. To achieve this, primary data were drawn from 200 tobacco farmers using semi-structured questionnaires. In order to determine the technical efficiency and its determinants, Data envelopment analysis and Tobit regression model were used for the analysis respectively. From the results, we observed that the mean TE was 49%, implying that the farmers were 51% inefficient. Furthermore, input prices, land size, farmers' age, farm income and farm location were found to be the determinants of technical efficiency. This study recommended that the government should subsidize farm inputs as well as training the farmers on input combinations in order to increase technical efficiency level.

Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, 2019