Author(s):
1. Hina Fatima:
Department of Economics, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University,Karachi,Pakistan
2. Bushra Yasmin:
Department of Economics, Fatima Jinnah Women University,Rawalpindi,Pakistan
3. Lal Khan Almas:
Department of Agricultural Business and Economics West Texas A and M University,Canyon, TX,USA
Abstract:
This research focuses on the eficiency and productivity analysis of bitter gourd-capsicum multiple cropping systems under tunnels in Punjab, Pakistan. Given the wide land fragmentation and high population pressure, this is the dire need of time to get farmers involved in advanced and intensive farming techniques to attain self-suficiency in production. This study conducted the eficiency and productivity analysis by applying the parametric and non-parametric techniques to evaluate the optimal utilization of farm resources in multiple cropping system and the eficiency gains from tunnel technology. The data were collected from 150 multiple bitter gourd-capsicum cropping system farms. The empirical findings yielded an average technical eficiency of score 0.79 in bitter gourd-capsicum cropping systems. More intrinsically, the apparent output gap is due to ineficient utilization of inputs within given farm resources that can be improved by proper farm management practices, enhancing farmers' knowledge regarding inputs quality and its time-efective utilization in addition to the marketing information about availability of innovative inputs. This is learned from the results that multiple cropping under tunnels appeared as a cutting-edge system among the prevalent agricultural practices in Pakistan that demands modernity and challenges on the part of farmers.
Page(s):
1403-1417
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Year: 2021
Keywords:
Tunnel farming
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Stochastic frontier analysis
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Technical Efficiency
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Data envelopment analysis
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Multiple cropping systems
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