... often highlights diversification benefits without assessing its direct impact on production efficiency. Design/methodology/approach A stochastic frontier production function was used to estimate output elasticities, input contributions, technical efficiency and scale elasticity in diversified rice...

... The present study utilises the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method to measure the technical efficiency of 57 Indian sugar firms. Data about four input variables, namely raw material, labour, capital, energy and one output variable, namely, net sales revenue, for the period from 2013 to 2023, were extracted...

...Sudha Kumari; Rakesh Singh Purpose This paper is based on a meta-regression analysis (MRA) of technical efficiency (TE) in crop production across India, synthesizing 448 observations from 140 studies published between 1991 and 2024. The analysis explores the extent to which methodological, crop...

...Eka Rastiyanto Amrullah; Ani Pullaila; Yuti Giamerti Purpose This study investigates the impact of agricultural land ownership on smallholder rice farmers’ technical efficiency and productivity in Banten, Indonesia. It aims to address the research gap concerning the specific link between land...

... to measure technical efficiency (rice output relative to inputs) and environmental efficiency (minimizing nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions with given inputs). These scores are analyzed using bootstrap truncated regression to assess the effects of self- and organizationally initiated learning, using data from...

...Eka Rastiyanto Amrullah; Hiromi Tokuda Purpose This study examines the impact of extension services in Indonesia on the technical efficiency of smallholder rice farming. Design/methodology/approach The frontier production function approach and propensity score matching method are adopted...

...N'Banan Ouattara; Xueping Xiong; Abdelrahman Ali; Dessalegn Anshiso Sedebo; Trazié Bertrand Athanase Youan Bi; Zié Ballo Purpose This study examines the impact of agricultural credit on rice farmers' technical efficiency (TE) in Côte d'Ivoire by considering the heterogeneity among credit sources...

... costs and increase earnings. Design/methodology/approach By applying robust regression and Tobit models to estimate technical efficiency (TE), the difference-in-difference (DID) technique is used in this study to determine the change in the TE of 1,035 farmers in the period 2013–2015 in Northern...

... Rice Selection bias Stochastic production frontier Technical efficiency Yield (productivity) C21 C83 Q12 Q18 N55 Rice is the primary staple food for Bangladesh, providing two-thirds of daily caloric needs and one-half of total protein intake. Rice is also a dominant cash crop...

...Wei Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the degree of technical efficiency, determinants of technical inefficiencies and driving forces behind the production growth for a panel data set collected during the 1998/1999 and 2004/2006 Kharif cropping season, from 452 small-scale rice...

...Wasiu Olayinka Fawole; Burhan Ozkan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess how profitable and technically efficient is cocoa enterprise in Ondo State of Nigeria especially amidst the ongoing diversification program of the current administration in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach...