Analysis of Economic Efficiency of Rice Farms: An Application of a Deterministic Gross Revenue Frontier Function Approach
This paper aimed at ascertaining the level of technical, distributive and economic efficiency through cross sectional data from rice farmers’s fields. With this end in mind, a deterministic gross revenue frontier function approach was used. The empirical evidence supported the notion that an average...
| Autor Principal: | Ramírez Suárez, Álvaro; Docente de las Facultades de Administración de Empresas Agropecuarias y Economía. Universidad Santo Tomás, Bucaramanga, Colombia. |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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Universidad Santo Tomás seccional Bucaramanga
2013
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http://revistas.ustabuca.edu.co/index.php/LEBRET/article/view/847 |
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This paper aimed at ascertaining the level of technical, distributive and economic efficiency through cross sectional data from rice farmers’s fields. With this end in mind, a deterministic gross revenue frontier function approach was used. The empirical evidence supported the notion that an average rice farmer in this region could increase current rice yields up to 53%, reduce unit variable costs up to 34.5% and increase gross revenue (before covering fixed costs) up to 70% if He/she were to use and combine land, labor and purchased inputs at similar levels and fashions as those employed by best practice farmers in the sample. At the end suggestions are raised in order to bridge yield gaps. |
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