Technical Efficiency of Freshwater Aquaculture and its Determinants in Tripura, India
2009
Singh, Kehar | Dey, Madan Mohan | Rabbani, Abed G. | Sudhakaran, Pratheesh O. | Thapa, Ganesh
Freshwater aquaculture is an important and promising sector of the economy of Tripura State. Thebiophysical potential for growth in freshwater aquaculture in the state is still far from exhaustion and afaster development is required to meet the growth in demand for fish. This paper has assessed the level oftechnical efficiency and its determinants of small-scale fish production in the West Tripura district of thestate of Tripura, India. The study is based on the cross-sectional primary data collected from 101 fishfarmers through a multi-stage random sampling method. The paper has employed stochastic productionfrontier approach, and has followed both one-stage and two-stage procedures to analyze the determinantsof TE. The TE ranges between 0.21 and 0.96 with mean of 0.66 and median of 0.71. The study has revealedthe Cobb-Douglas form of stochastic frontier production function is more dependable than that of translogform under the farming conditions in the West Tripura district of Tripura state. One-stage procedure withtechnical inefficiency model gives reliable estimates of coefficients of stochastic frontier productionfunction than that of two-stage procedure. Seed quality has been found as an important determinant of TE.The study has suggested that the state government needs to play a role to ascertain the supply of qualityfish fingerlings at adequate time and quantity to the farmers in the study area.
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