Technical Efficiency of Cotton Production in Pakistan: A Comparative Study on Non BT and BT-Cotton Farms

Fatima, Hina; Khan, Muhammad Aslam; Ullah, Mahreen Zaid; Jabbar, Abdul; Saddozai, Khurram Nawaz

doi:10.17582/journal.sja/2016/32.4.267.274

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“…Since the adoption of variety, there is a steep increase in the area of cotton in two of the countries. In addition, these have transformed from net importers to exporter Sadashivappa and Qaim (2009), Fatima et al (2016), Dagar and Yadav (2017). Fertilizer consumption has a negative value in terms of India (− 0.0005), which means that every 1-ton increase in fertilizer consumption leads to decrease total factor productivity of cotton over the time period; the reason of this decline is those still farmers in India are not enough efficient to use fertilizer.…”

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“…Since the advent of Meiji revolution (1878), it had widely been assumed that high yield variety genetically modified seeds increase the crop productivity substantially, Fatima et al (2016), as it did in Japan and later on in Korea and Taiwan. The study will investigate the following question's answer: What are the major reasons, due to which area of the crop is shrinking in Pakistan?…”

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The impact of technological advancement on total factor productivity of cotton: a comparative analysis between Pakistan and India

Shabbir

Yaqoob

2019

Economic Structures

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Cotton is a major fiber cash crop of Pakistan and India after food crops, wheat, and sugarcane. Moreover, cotton is the crop which produces many byproducts, such as, lint, edible oil, and cloths; these finished items of the crop have 10 percent shares in the GDP of Pakistan. The most notable point is that in the international market, India is trailing to the United States of America, whereas Pakistan instead to export, importing the cotton due to decrease in its area under the crop (World textile information report 2017, USDA

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The impact of technological advancement on total factor productivity of cotton: a comparative analysis between Pakistan and India

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Yaqoob

2019

Economic Structures

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“…Earlier studies of [18] [19] [20] estimated the technical efficiency of cotton crop in southern Punjab by using DEA. [21] estimated the comparative efficiency analysis of BT and Non-BT cotton crops in Pakistan. The result of this study found that farmers of study areas were not being able to capitalize on the maximum advantage of BT and Non-BT cotton varieties.…”

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Technical and Scale Efficiency Analysis of Cash Crops Production in Pakistan: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

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The study has analyzed the technical efficiency of major cash crops' yield in Pakistanfrom 1948 till 2018. Cotton and sugarcane are the crops selected for analysis with an area ofthousand hectares. For carrying out the analysis, data is taken from the Ministry of Food andAgriculture (MINFA), Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, and economic surveys of Pakistan of differentyears. The technique employed in the study is the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) technique. The result obtained after technical efficiency analysis reveal the suboptimal cashcrop yield in Pakistan throughout the analysis. The average technical efficiency of cotton andsugarcane crops from 1948 to 2018 are approximately 0.80 and 0.84 respectively. Furthermore,the result of scale efficiency analysis showed the monotonous performance of cash crops'production. The consistent variation in cotton and sugar cane crops' yield over the years reportedby the efficiency analysis, accounts for Constant Return to Scale (CRS) and Variable Return toScale (VRS) models, resulted in varying Return to Scale (RTS). The plausible reasons can beattributed to the Increasing Returns to Scale (IRS) or Decreasing Returns to Scale (DRS) in thecase of cotton and sugarcane production. An interesting finding is unveiled that out of 70 years,cotton and sugarcane crops achieved the optimal scale efficiencies for only one year. The bestpossible level of output of cotton and sugarcane crops in the future can be achieved by allocatinga lesser area under the cultivation of these crops in Pakistan. It is also imperative that farmers adoptand implement modern farm technologies. Increasing the area under crop production is not asolution, especially in the wake of alarming population growth and urbanization in Pakistan. Theformulation of policies encouraging farmers requires modern farm inputs to realize the optimalyield of cash crops in Pakistan. The government should educate the farmers regarding advancedfarming and efficient farm management techniques to help to augment the farm output withoutexpansion of the area for these crops

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“…Homogeneity estimation confers of elasticity coefficients with returns to scale which are advantages related to Cobb-Douglas production function rather to other approaches. A lot of work specifically to agriculture has focused parametric approach for empirical estimation as (Basnayake and Gunartne, 2011;Hassan, 2004;Fatima et al, 2016;Ahmad and Afzal, 2012;Seymour, 2017). The stochastic Frontier approach employed in this study for an empirical estimation which primarily introduced by Aigner et al, (1977) and Meeusen and Broeck (1977) as indicated below Equation 1.…”

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An Empirical Analysis of Economic Efficiency and Farm Size of Cotton Farmers

Ahmad¹,

Afzal²

2020

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I n developing countries, assuring food security, enhancing employment opportunities, providing industrial raw material and reducing poverty of the farming community agriculture plays a major role . In the scenario of incompatible climate change and environmental dynamics, agriculture is involved in uncertain risk, which caused farming risky enterprise (Azam-Ali, 2007;Wang et al., 2009;. Production fluctuations, financial constraints, less developed human resources, marketing issues, and environmental dynamics are significant risks in agriculture. Production risk is considered more severe among these in reducing crop yield and a major threat to farmers livelihood (Musser and Patrick, 2002;Sarwar and Saeed, 2013;. In the scenario of farm size and efficiency status an inverse association was estimated in literature due to some significant reasons for imperfect factors of the market (insurance market, credit market, labour market, and land market), Abstract | This paper attempted to analyze the impact of farm size on the economic efficiency of cotton farmers in southern Punjab of Pakistan. Farm-level allocative, economic and technical efficiency of samples of 240 small, medium and large-scale cotton farmers was estimated using Stochastic Frontier Approach of district Rahim Yar Khan Punjab, Pakistan. Empirical findings of the study indicated that medium farm size cotton farmers were more allocative, technically and economically efficient (0.90, 0.94, 0.85) rather than small farm farmers (0.79, 0.92, 0.76) and large farm farmers (0.70, 0.97, 0.68). Farmers schooling years, formal credit access, own tubewell availability, adequate extension access and sowing cotton crop timely were significant socioeconomic factors that affect farmers efficiency level. Medium farm size cotton farmers were producing higher cotton yield and earning higher per acre gross profit (Rs. 18142.28) relatively to small (Rs. 15232.94) and large (Rs. 8231.349) farm size cotton farmers. There is a need for significant prolong state-based policy measures for provision of adequate and quality based crop inputs, infusion of advanced mechanisation and regulating market mechanism for consistency in prices of crop inputs and outputs. It is essential to increase managerial competencies among farmers through increasing literacy, sufficient access of extension services, familiarity and infusion of advanced mechanisation and adequate access of formal credit through implementing adequate policy measures by concerned authorities of the state.

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Technical Efficiency of Cotton Production in Pakistan: A Comparative Study on Non BT and BT-Cotton Farms

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The impact of technological advancement on total factor productivity of cotton: a comparative analysis between Pakistan and India

The impact of technological advancement on total factor productivity of cotton: a comparative analysis between Pakistan and India

Technical and Scale Efficiency Analysis of Cash Crops Production in Pakistan: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

An Empirical Analysis of Economic Efficiency and Farm Size of Cotton Farmers

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