 The Technical Efficiency of Farms, Its Decomposition into Input Components, and Their Socioeconomic Characteristics at Alahsa Oasis in Saudi ArabiaEzzeddine B. Mosbah () and
Amane Iwais
Chapter Chapter 13 in Business Analytics and Decision Making in Practice, 2024, pp 143-153 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The current study aims to assess the technical efficiency of farms in the Alahsa region of Saudi Arabia and decompose them into input components. It contrasts the socioeconomic traits of farmers in an attempt to provide an explanation for their efficiency levels. The ID-DEA model was run on a sample of 25 farms. The findings show that farms are categorized into three groups according to technical efficiency scores. With all inputs being efficient (scores = 1), 48% of farms fall into the first efficiency category. Twenty percent of farms fall into the second category of moderately efficient farms (0.5–0.79), meaning that they employ pesticides, irrigation, and production processes at moderately efficient levels (0.89, 0.88, and 085, respectively). The third category consists of inefficient farms ( Keywords: Efficiency; Input decomposition; Saudi Arabia (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:lnopch:978-3-031-61589-4_13 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-61589-4_13 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Lecture Notes in Operations Research from Springer |
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