Technical Efficiency of Groundnut Production in Saurashtra Region of Gujarat-A Translog Stochastic Frontier Approach

Can Farm Sustainability Translate into Efficiency as Well? A Technical Efficiency Analysis of Relay Cropping System in Saurashtra, Gujarat

“…Such a positive relationship would have been possible since with the increase in experience the managerial capacity of the farmers would also increase leading to informed decisions regarding the use of resources. The present findings are in line with that of Maurice et al (2012) and Varsani et al (2016) who also reported the significant and positive effect of experience over average technical efficiency. It is to be noted that the age factor was dropped from the initial model since it was found to have multicollinearity issue with experience.…”

“…Following Aigner et al (1977); Sharma and Datta (1997); Taru et al (2011) and Varsani et al (2016), the stochastic frontier production function approach was used in the present study to measure the technical efficiency of relay cropping vis-à-vis sole crop farms i.e. groundnut and pigeonpea.…”

“…It is to be noted that the significance of σ 2 , γ and λ parameters would indicate significant variations in the output levels. If the coefficients of these variance ratios are not significant then the MLE estimates would not have been sufficient to explain the variations in output as the component of technical efficiency would have been negligible (Varsani et al 2016). If the parameter λ attains the value of more than one, then it would indicate that the output variations due to farm level inefficiency are larger than that of the random factors that are outside the farmer's control (including observational / measurement errors and natural calamities alike).…”

“…In order to find out the key determinants of technical efficiency, a simple linear multiple regression equation of the form given in equation ( 14) was estimated using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique (Kalirajan, 1990;Bravo-Ureta and Evenson, 1994;Parikh and Shah, 1994;Shanmugam, 2003;Bhende and Kalirajan, 2007;and Varsani et al, 2016).…”

Economic and Environmental Performance of the Agricultural Sectors of the Selected EU Countries

“…Market imperfections are considered the main determinant of efficiency by Souza and Gomes [36].Čehura [37] identified the quality of management processes as the main driving force of technical efficiency. Varasani et al [38] found soil quality to be a determinant of the agricultural technical efficiency. Ahmad and Afzal [39] argue that technical efficiency is related to the economies of scale.…”