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Title: | Technical Efficiency in Intensive Rainfed Cropping Systems | Contributor(s): | Villano, R (author) ; Lucas, MP (author); Pandey, S (author) | Publication Date: | 2006 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13 | Abstract: | Farming in the rainfed lowlands of northwest Luzon, Philippines, is highly intensive,diversified, and commercialised. The cropping-system is predominantly rice-based in the wetseason and high-value cash crops are grown during the dry season. Using panel data from100 randomly selected farmers, a stochastic input distance function is used to investigatetechnical efficiencies and scope economies in this environment. The average technicalefficiency estimates over the four-year period was 68 per cent. Results also show thatsignificant scope economies exist between rice and the major dry-season crops of garlic andmungbean. Scope diseconomies exist between rice and maize. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Icfai Journal of Agricultural Economics, 3(4), p. 18-33 | Publisher: | Icfai University Press | Place of Publication: | Hyderabad, India | ISSN: | 0973-2276 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 140201 Agricultural Economics | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://ideas.repec.org/a/icf/icfjag/v03y2006i4p18-33.html |
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