The extent of resource use inefficiencies in cotton production in Pakistan's Punjab: an application of Data Envelopment Analysis
By M. Shafiq, T. Rehman. 2000
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This paper attempts to identify sources of resource use inefficiency for cotton production in Pakistan's Punjab. The use of a non-parametric method, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), is developed to study the relative technical and allocative efficiencies of individual farms which use similar inputs, produce the same product and operate under comparable circumstances. In the 'cotton-wheat' system of Pakistan, there are a considerable number of farms that are both technically and allocatively inefficient. The use of DEA shows that the technique provides a clear identification of both the extent and the sources of technical and allocative inefficiencies in cotton production. However, both the interpretation of the farm level results generated and the projection of these results to a higher level require care, given the technical nature of the agricultural production processes.© 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research
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Citations in the corpus
- Technical efficiency in developing country agriculture: a meta-analysis (2001, unknown): “A relatively small but growing number of agricultural applications have used the DEA approach to frontier estimation (Just, 2000; Shafiq and Rehman, 2000).”
- Measuring the economic inefficiency of Nepalese rice farms using data envelopment analysis (2004, unknown): “…second stage regression model to determine the farm specific attributes in explaining inefficiency is suggested in a number of studies (e.g., Kalirajan 1991; Parikh and Shah 1995; Hallam and Machado 1996; Llewelyn and Williams 1996; Sharma et al. 1999; Shafiq and Rehman 2000; Wadud and White 2000).”
- Assessing the effects of managerial and production practices on the efficiency of commercial pig farming (2006, unknown): “In agriculture , DEA has also been applied to studies of various products ranging from horticulture and cotton to aquaculture (e.g. Shafiq and Rehman, 2000; Sharma et al., 1999a; Iraizoz et al., 2003.”