Farm Size and Cost Efficiency of the Tea Growers in Assam: A DEA Analysis
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Author: Bondona Lama and Rangalal Mohapatra
Author Address: Research Scholar , Assistant Professor , Department of Economics, Sikkim University, Gangtok-737102 (Sikkim)
Keywords: Allocative efficiency, farm size, farming skills, technical efficiency.
JEL Codes: D220, D240, Q120.
Abstract
In studying farm-size and cost efficiency
association of the sample tea growers of three districts in Assam, the Data Envelopment
Analysis and Tobit Regression results showed that cost efficiency declined as
farm size increased for big growers. Still, for small growers, the association
was positive, even though big growers were more cost-efficient than small
growers. Allocative efficiency was the major cause of low cost efficiency for
both, and gender, farm size, number of plots, and membership of growers'
association were significant factors of cost efficiency of small growers.
Higher education was important for the big growers. The study recommended
public policy interventions to improve the farming skills of female SGs and
better managerial skills of big growers.
Description
Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Volume 18 No. 3, 2022, 507-518
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35716/IJED/21298
NAAS Score: 5.15 (2022)
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics (ESCI) of WoS
Indexed in Scopus (SJR: 0.18)
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