A Study on Resource Use Efficiency of Sugarcane Farms: Evidence from Village Level Study in Orissa, India

Technical Efficiency in Sugarcane Crop - A Stochastics Frontier Analysis

“…India is the second largest sugarcane producer after the Brazil in the world producing 20.73% o in 2019 [1] area under sugarcane crop 4.75 million hectares and production 362.07 million tonnes with the per hectare productivity of 761.81 quantal per ha. Sugarcane is a yearly crop and provide the employment around 45 million skilled and unskilled labour throughout the year [2] Uttar Pradesh is the largest producer of sugarcane with area under 2.21 million hectares, and production of 117.954 million tonnes, with 47.97 percent of area and 58.46 % of production with the productivity of 813.13 quintal per hectare, Uttar Pradesh is an agrarian economy where 47% of the population is directly dependent on agriculture for their livelihood. Even though the share of agriculture in overall GSDP has dropped to only 12% in TE 2017-18, agriculture still remains an important sector because the income of a substantial section of the workforce still comes from this sector [3,[22][23][24] sugarcane in India is cultivated in two distinct agro-climatic region viz tropical and sub-tropical in the sub-tropical region Uttar Pradesh divided in nine agro-climatic zone, wit around 96.2 per cent area under irrigation in Uttar Pradesh and 100 per cent area under irrigation in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu.…”