Determinants of Technical Efficiency of Tomato Farms in District Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Khan, Asim Ali; Khan, Aftab; Riaz, Bakhtawar

doi:10.17582/journal.sja/2019/35.2.572.578

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“…After deciding the total sample size, a proportional allocating sampling technique [25] was used to interview the rice growers from each and every chosen tehsil following [10,16,22,23,[26][27][28]:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to [6,32], both the terms are quite independent of each other; the random error term shows the factors that are not under the control of any individual producer, such as natural disasters, while the other term captures the inefficiency of individuals in terms of productivity, regarding the available resources. For simplicity regarding the unique error term and consistency in the SFM approach, this study also used this approach, following [10,12,15,19,26,27,[33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. The general form of the SFM approach is given as:…”

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Technical Efficiency and Economic Analysis of Rice Crop in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

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Pakistan is one of the world’s leading producers, exporters, and consumers of rice. This study analyzes the technical efficiency of rice growing farmers in the Swat district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. A three-stage sampling procedure was used to interview 204 rice growers through a well-structured and pretested interview schedule. The maximum likelihood function results showed that chemicals, urea, diammonium phosphate (DAP), labor, and farmyard manure (FYM-dummy) were positive and had a statistically significant effect on rice yield; this implies that a 1% increase in chemicals, urea, DAP, labor, and FYM leads to an increase in rice production by 0.22%, 0.25%, 0.02%, 0.03%, and 0.01%, respectively. The estimated results of model 2 reported that respondents’ age had a positive significant effect on inefficiency, showing that with a rise in farmers’ age, the farmers’ inefficiency significantly increased. The education and experience of farmers were negative and significant, implying that these variables significantly decreased the farmers’ inefficiency. Furthermore, the results showed the mean technical efficiency as 87%, with a minimum of 66% and a maximum of 99%. The study recommends that the extension department needs to arrange training programs for the rice growers in this specific area to boost rice yield, enhance agronomic skills, and facilitate these farmers with the technical knowledge for efficient production.

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Technical Efficiency and Economic Analysis of Rice Crop in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

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“…The growth rate is less as compared to increase in population every year. Consequently, it is necessary to enhance the efficiency of maize growers in order to meet the local demand and save foreign exchange (Ali et al, 2019). The technological advancement particularly in agriculture sector, has brought an enhancement in efficiency and productivity (Ugochukwu and Phillips, 2018).…”

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“…(Bempomaa and Acquah, 2014) Pursuing of different management practices by the farmers is the reason of variation in production. The possibility of achieving efficiency in productivity is realized by technical efficiency and level of inefficiency factors in maize (Ali et al, 2019).…”

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Technical Efficiency of Maize in District Lakki Marwat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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“…The function was shown as: Ningsih (2016) applied the Cobb-Douglas production function to analyse factors that affect the production of cabbages, and found that these factors included labour, land, pesticides and seeds. Ali et al (2019) applied the Cobb-Douglas production function and result revealed that seed rate, tractor hours, labour days and fertilizer were important factors accounting for the increase of tomato production in the study area. Hence, the Cobb-Douglas production function is of great importance towards analysing farm production as it explains the type of returns to scale demonstrated given the inputs used.…”

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Economic Analysis of the Production of Root-vegetables by Small-Scale Farmers in Mbulu District

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The production of vegetables supports farmer’s food security and income generation. Thispaper seeks to analyse the production of root-vegetables by small-scale farmers in MbuluDistrict, Tanzania. The paper applied a cross-section design and a two-stage sampling toobtain 120 farmers producing either carrots or Irish potatoes. Results from the CobbDouglas production function showed that farm area and inputs cost were significantfactors that influenced production of carrots; while farm area, labour, inputs cost, andequipment cost were significant factors that influenced the production of potatoes.Furthermore, results from multiple regression showed that income of root-vegetablesgrowers decreased significantly with the production of potatoes compared to carrots; butincreased significantly with farm area. The findings highlight the need for the Ministryresponsible for Agriculture to offer agricultural extension services regarding optimalproduction of root-vegetables for sustainable increased returns to scale in the long-run.JEL Classification: D24, C30

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Determinants of Technical Efficiency of Tomato Farms in District Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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