Measuring and Explaining Technical Efficiency in UK Potato Production

Paul Wilson, David Hadley, Stephen Ramsden and Ioannis Kaltsas

Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998, vol. 49, issue 3, 294-305

Abstract: Technical efficiency in UK maincrop potato production is measured through the estimation of a stochastic frontier production function using cross section data for the 1992 crop year. Variations in the technical efficiency index across production units are explained through a number of managerial and farm characteristic variables following Battese and Coelli (1995). The technical efficiency index across production units ranges from 33 to 97 per cent. Irrigation of the potato crop and storage of potatoes after harvest are positively correlated with technical efficiency. Number of years of experience of growing potatoes, small scale farming practice and chitting of seed potatoes are all negatively correlated with technical efficiency.

Date: 1998
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