An Efficiency Analysis of Punjab’s Cotton-Wheat System

M. Ishaq Javed (), Sultan Ali Adil (), Sarfaraz Hassan () and Asghar Ali ()
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M. Ishaq Javed: Agriculture Officer, Sangla Hill, District Nankana Sahib.
Sultan Ali Adil: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
Sarfaraz Hassan: Department of Environmental and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
Asghar Ali: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.

Lahore Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 14, issue 2, 97-124

Abstract: This study examines the technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies of the cotton-wheat farming system in Punjab, Pakistan. It also investigates the determinants of these efficiencies using a non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique. Technical, allocative, and economic inefficiency scores are separately regressed on socioeconomic and farm-specific variables to identify the sources of inefficiency using a Tobit regression model. The mean technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies calculated for the system were 0.87, 0.44, and 0.37, respectively. Our results indicate that years of schooling and the number of contacts with extension agents have a negative impact on the inefficiency of cotton-wheat farming in Punjab.

Keywords: Cotton; wheat; economic efficiency; data envelopment analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 D61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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