Measuring the technical efficiency and exploring the inefficiency determinants of vegetable farms in Samsun province, Turkey

Bozoğlu, Mehmet; Ceyhan, Vedat

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2007.01.007

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“…Other socio-economic characteristics of farmers, such as age and education level, were significant at 1% and 5%, respectively, with inverse relationships with technical efficiency. These results are in lines with Alwarritzi et al [18] and Bozoglu and Ceyhan [41] who found similar results for age. This situation, however, contradicts to that in Europe, where a study by Nowak et al [42] indicated the existence of positive relationship between age and technical efficiency.…”

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Do NGOs and Development Agencies Contribute to Sustainability of Smallholder Soybean Farmers in Northern Ghana—A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach

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NGOs and development agencies have a conspicuous presence in facilitating capacity building, access to production resources and markets. Capacity building by NGOs and development agencies is expected to contribute to farm efficiency and sustainability by promoting and enhancing fertilizer use as well as increasing soil fertilities. However, the influence of these factors on technical efficiency as an important dimension of sustainability has not been further explored in Ghana. This study therefore assesses the influence of NGOs on technical efficiency among smallholder soybean farmers by applying stochastic frontier analysis. The data collected from 349 smallholder soybean producers in the three northern regions of Ghana are employed for the analysis. Results show that the mean technical efficiency of soybean production is 0.885, indicating a growth potential of 11.5%. Land area, agro-chemicals and seeds contribute to production growth while labor is over used. We find that NGO facilitation as well as group membership influences technical efficiency. Furthermore, farmers facilitated by NGOs and development agencies are 4.4 p.p. more efficient than non-facilitated farmers. Our study therefore implies that production and efficiency can be improved by providing more services to farmer group members and sustainable interventions from NGOs and social programs.

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Do NGOs and Development Agencies Contribute to Sustainability of Smallholder Soybean Farmers in Northern Ghana—A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach

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“…This result is unsurprising but consistent with the negative relationship between farm size area and efficiency. Further, this accords with prior studies that have found a negative relationship between farm size and level of technical efficiency in agricultural production (Bravo-Ureta & Evenson, 1994;Ali et al 1994;Hallam & Machado, 1996;Bozoğlu & Ceyhan, 2007). For Greek olive farms, Tzouvelekas et al (2001) suggested that larger farms tend to have lower efficiency than small farms.…”

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“…In our model, we test the impact of increasing the number of years under irrigation on technical efficiency. Many studies suggested a negative correlation between farm size and efficiency in agricultural operations (Bravo-Ureta & Evenson, 1994;Ali, Parikh, & Shah, 1994;Hallam & Machado, 1996;Bozoğlu & Ceyhan, 2007). Our model examines the effect of expansion of irrigated land on efficiency.…”

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Technical Efficiency of Olive-growing Farms in the Northern West Bank of Palestine

Kashiwagi¹

2017

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This study examines the firm-level technical efficiency of olive-growing farms in the West Bank of Palestine. Using a sample of 176 olive farms in the Jenin governorate collected during September 2015, we estimated the Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function. The results suggest that higher levels of education of the head of farm households and farms with a higher density of olive trees are associated with higher technical efficiency. The introduction of irrigation had a marginal effect on upgrading efficiency. Enlarging the irrigated area had a negative effect, but increasing the number of years of irrigation had a positive impact on efficiency. While the impact of access to export markets on technical efficiency was negative and farms oriented towards domestic consumption of olive oil showed lower efficiency, access to markets through olive presses and middlemen contributed to improve efficiency. The results of the chosen half-normal model suggest that olive farms in Jenin have the potential to increase production by 51.4% through more efficient use of technology and production inputs. These results imply promotion of intensive farming with mature olive trees and expansion of market access could contribute to improve technical efficiency of olive farms in the West Bank even under severe geographical and geopolitical conditions.

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“…Umur petani, pendidikan, akses terhadap penyuluhan, akses terhada kredit, agro-ekologi, luas lahan yang diusahakan, jumlah persil yang dimiliki, jumlah tanggungan keluarga, gender, sewa, akses pasar, akses terhadap teknologi (pupuk, pestisida, traktor, benih, intervensi pemerintah) mempunyai pengaruh positif terhadap efisiensi teknik (Ahmad et al, 2002;Basnayake and Gunaratne, 2002;Tchale dan Sauer, 2007dan 2009. Bozoglu and Ceyhan (2007) menilai efisiensi teknik dari produksi sayuran di Turki dengan menggunakan pendekatan SFA. Determinan yang menentukan efisiensi teknik meliputi umur petani, pengalaman, pendidikan, ukuran keluarga, dummy pendapatan di luar usahatani, dummy kredit, dummy partisipasi wanita, dan skor informasi.…”

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Pengaruh Karakteristik Struktural dan Manajerial Terhadap Efisiensi Usahatani Padi di Kabupaten Sleman

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Masyhuri

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Efforts to increase productivity of food crops, especially rice by using technology and innovation has been facing problems such as structure of the control and management of agricultural resources. This study aimed to identify the factors of farmer's structural and managerial characteristics that affect paddy farming efficiency in Sleman. Survey conducted on wetland rice farmers in rural and sub urban areas that represent the condition of the structural and manjerial characteristics that owned by farmers in Sleman. Analysis of stochastic frontier production function with the inclusion of the inefficiency effects model was conducted to identify determinants of production and the factors that affect the efficiency of farming. The result showed that the structural characteristics that influence the rice farming efficiency are the water irrigation source distance and the farm location, while the managerial characteristics factors are age, income outside the farm, participation in a group, experience and access to credit.

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Measuring the technical efficiency and exploring the inefficiency determinants of vegetable farms in Samsun province, Turkey

Cited by 170 publications

References 39 publications

Do NGOs and Development Agencies Contribute to Sustainability of Smallholder Soybean Farmers in Northern Ghana—A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach

Do NGOs and Development Agencies Contribute to Sustainability of Smallholder Soybean Farmers in Northern Ghana—A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach

Technical Efficiency of Olive-growing Farms in the Northern West Bank of Palestine

Pengaruh Karakteristik Struktural dan Manajerial Terhadap Efisiensi Usahatani Padi di Kabupaten Sleman

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