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An Analysis of Technical and Allocative Efficiency of Brinjal Farm in Bilaspur District of Chhattisgarh


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1 Department of Agricultural Economics, T.C.B. College of Agriculture and Research Station, Sarkanda Bilaspur (C.G.), India
2 Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Krishak Nagar, RAIPUR (C.G.), India
3 Department of Agricultural Statistics and Social Science, College of Agriculture, Krishak Nagar, RAIPUR (C.G.), India
     

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The study investigated the technical efficiency and allocative efficiency of brinjal farm in Bilaspir district of Chhattisgarh, using a stochastic frontier production function. Pre-tested questionnaires were used to collect the primary data from 154 randomly selected respondents. The study revealed return to scale on brinjal farm positive and less than unity as 0.58 which indicated that brinjal production in stage two of the production surface. The stochastic frontier analysis showed that 22.3 per cent of the variation in brinjal output attributed to technical efficiencies differences among the production units. About 77.7 per cent of the variation in output was due to random factors such as unfavourable weather, water scarcity, pest and disease attack and other factors outside the control of producer including errors in data collection and aggregation. The mean technical efficiency of the pooled sample accounted to be 96.1 per cent. Allocative efficiency in production of brinjal was not optimum as input variables were either under utilized or over utilized. Allocative efficiency of labour in brinjal production seed was under utilized. Rests of the input variables were over utilized. No farm from different categories size groups of farms of vegetable growers found using the resources efficiently.

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Technical Efficiency, Allocative Efficiency, Stochastic Frontier Production, Maximum Likelihood Estimates, Return to Scale.
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Authors

Ajay Tegar
Department of Agricultural Economics, T.C.B. College of Agriculture and Research Station, Sarkanda Bilaspur (C.G.), India
K. N. S. Banafar
Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Krishak Nagar, RAIPUR (C.G.), India
A. K. Gauraha
Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Krishak Nagar, RAIPUR (C.G.), India
G. Chandrakar
Department of Agricultural Statistics and Social Science, College of Agriculture, Krishak Nagar, RAIPUR (C.G.), India

Abstract


The study investigated the technical efficiency and allocative efficiency of brinjal farm in Bilaspir district of Chhattisgarh, using a stochastic frontier production function. Pre-tested questionnaires were used to collect the primary data from 154 randomly selected respondents. The study revealed return to scale on brinjal farm positive and less than unity as 0.58 which indicated that brinjal production in stage two of the production surface. The stochastic frontier analysis showed that 22.3 per cent of the variation in brinjal output attributed to technical efficiencies differences among the production units. About 77.7 per cent of the variation in output was due to random factors such as unfavourable weather, water scarcity, pest and disease attack and other factors outside the control of producer including errors in data collection and aggregation. The mean technical efficiency of the pooled sample accounted to be 96.1 per cent. Allocative efficiency in production of brinjal was not optimum as input variables were either under utilized or over utilized. Allocative efficiency of labour in brinjal production seed was under utilized. Rests of the input variables were over utilized. No farm from different categories size groups of farms of vegetable growers found using the resources efficiently.

Keywords


Technical Efficiency, Allocative Efficiency, Stochastic Frontier Production, Maximum Likelihood Estimates, Return to Scale.

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