TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN BASMATI RICE PRODCTION

J. C. Flinn and Mubarik Ali*

Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, 1986, vol. 5, issue 1, 63-79

Abstract: Increasing competition in international markets, and increasing production costs, increases the need for greater efficiency in Basmati rice production. Levels of technical inefficiency which now exist were estimated via a frontier production function. The modal level of technical inefficiency at farm specific resource levels among 115 Basmati rice producers was 20 per cent which translated into a modal yield loss of 0.4 tons/ha. The better educated households tended to be more technically efficient; late transplanting, and late fertilizer application and water shortages contributed significantly to farm-specific technical inefficiency.

Date: 1986
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