Item Details
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:1162Hits:21154578Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search

In Basket
  Journal Article   Journal Article
 

ID159805
Title ProperExamining technical efficiency in Indian agricultural production using production frontier model
LanguageENG
AuthorMukherjee, Shrabani ;  Pradhan, Kailash Chandra
Summary / Abstract (Note)The study estimates the technical efficiency (TE) of agricultural production in India using production frontier model for both cross-section and panel data for the years 1999 and 2007. Given the persistent low productivity of agriculture in India, there is a serious need to identify the determining factors for technological lock-in for agricultural production in order to accelerate sustainable productivity and technical efficiency. The model claims that farmer’s education, household’s production process, proportion of irrigated area covered by canals, availability of wells, yielding variety of lands, government services, agricultural expenditure by local government and women reservations in local government significantly contribute to efficiency in resource utilization in farm production. Traditional techniques such as ‘learning by doing’ is, generally, preferred than the adoption of new technologies for agricultural production. It makes a constraint of technological lock-in.
`In' analytical Note
South Asia Economic Journal Vol. 19, No.1; Mar 2018: p.22-42
Journal SourceSouth Asia Economic Journal 2018-06 19, 1
Key WordsPanel Data ;  Technical Efficiency ;  Production Function ;  Agricultural Farmers