期刊名称：International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics
印刷版ISSN：2147-8988
出版年度：2014
卷号：2
期号：4
页码：27-49
出版社：International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics
摘要：The paper estimates the technical efficiency and the relationship between farm size and productivity efficiency. Field survey data of 461 farmers from district Pulwama of Jammu & Kashmir (India) for the year 2013 -14 were used to estimate the technical efficiency by employin g Non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis. Average technical efficiency worked out to be 48%. Most of the farms were operating at low level of technical efficiency. There was also wide dispersion in technical efficiency across farm categories. Farm size and productivity efficiency relationship was found to be non -linear, with efficiency first falling and then rising with size. Large farms tend to have high er net farm income per acre and are technically efficient compared to other small farm size ca tegories. The study further delineated the socio-economic, institutional and farm factors of technical efficiency using Two-limit Tobit Regression Model. The results showed that Occupation, Farm Experience, Household Size, Farm Size, Membership and Seed Type were found to be important determents that influence the discrepancies in technical efficiency across farm sizes. Policymakers should, therefore, foster the development of the socio-economic, institutional and farm specific factors in order to build the capacity and management skills of the farmers.
关键词：Farm size; technical efficiency; Data Envelopment Analyses; Tobit Model
