Technical efficiency among rice farmers in Philippine rice bowl
1993
Fukui, S. (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka (Japan). Faculty of Agriculture)
To estimate the technical efficiency among rice farmers and its contribution to profitability of new rice technology, the frontier production function approach is applied to the data collected in rural Philippines. A statistical test to test whether the functional form is Cobb-Douglas or Translog, suggests that the model can not be better represented by Translog production frontier. The estimation results show that technical efficiency estimated by Cobb-Douglas model contributes around 70% of the explained profit variability
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