摘要：Since the 1970s, the policy of Indian government has been to promote dairydevelopment on the basis of the cooperative organisations. During the 1990s the dairyindustry in India was liberalised. This study examines the impact of the liberalisationpolicy on the cooperative dairy plants in India. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) andthe Fisher index approach are applied to measure economic efficiency and totalproductivity changes, respectively. The data involves 65 observations from acomplete panel of 13 cooperative dairy plants from 1992/93 to 1996/97. Theempirical results show that the deregulation and liberalisation of the dairy industryalone is not the answer.
关键词：productivity; efficiency; Fisher index; Indian dairy processing
