Abstract: This study focuses on comparing the technical
efficiency of rice farms in two locations with different
level of urbanization. A production function using maximum likelihood method is
estimated and efficiency score of individual household is calculated using
stochastic frontier analysis. The efficiency scores are regressed on variables
including farm-household characteristics and degree of output market
commercialization. The empirical evidence suggests that the elasticity of
production to land size and biological inputs like chemical fertilizer,
pesticide, fungicide and seed is positive and statistically significant. The
average efficiency scores in two sample districts indicate that the production
can be increased by 26-33% through improving efficiency in a given technological
condition. The result suggests that the degree of commercialization has positive
effect on technical
efficiency. Furthermore, household characteristics like
education, age, share of agriculture in total household income, sharecropping
also have a significant effect on technical
efficiency.
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