Abstract:
This study estimates the expediency of Technical Ecfiiency (TE), Allocative Ecfiiency (AE), Overall Ecfiiency (OE) and Scale Ecfiiency (SE) for 183 cooperatives in Battambang, Cambodia. Typically, each cooperative is well-organized vis-à-vis TE, AE, and OE correspondingly. eTh results of the study indicated that around 66.77%, 20.20%, and 13.11% of the cooperatives are functioning under the increasing, constant and decreasing return to scales, respectively. As a result, a cooperative tend to cut costs by concentrating on TE, AE, and OE instead of lowering costs. Furthermore, the study has introduced the ordinary least squares (OLS) model to examine the relationship between protfiability ratios and performance measures, which indicates that return on assets and equity are linked to technical and distribution ecfiiency. eTh cooperatives could increase their protfis by upsurging sales performance instead of improving technical performance.eThse results also conrfim that cooperatives managers should give greater importance to the eefctive use of capital and labor by increasing agricultural output.
Page(s):
1094-1098
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Year: 2019
Keywords:
Allocative efficiency
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Cambodia
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Overall Efficiency
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Agricultural output