An analysis of productive efficiency of smallholder farms of cotton-wheat system in Punjab,Pakistan | [Journal of Agricultural Research • 2011]

Author(s):

1. Mohammad Ishaq Javed: Sangla Hills, Nankana Sahib, PAKISTAN

2. Wasif Khurshid: Government of Punjab, Lahore, PAKISTAN

3. Ishtiaq Hassan: Government of the Punjab, Faisalabad, PAKISTAN

4. Muhammad Arif Raza: P & D Department, Lahore, PAKISTAN

5. Asghar Ali: Shahkot District, Nankana Sahib, PAKISTAN

6. Irfan Ahmad Baig: Irrigation & Power Department (I & P), Punjab Irrigation System Improvement Programme (PISIP), Lahore, PAKISTAN

Abstract:

This study investigates the effect of farm size on productive efficiency of smallholder farms of cotton-wheat system in Punjab Province of Pakistan. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to generate input oriented measure of technical, allocative and economic efficiency from a cross-sectional survey data of 200 farms collected for the crop year 2006-07. The results suggest that gains from improving productive efficiency exist for all the farm size categories. Decomposition of total technical efficiency into pure technical and scale efficiency reveals that small farms are pure technically more efficient (0.83) than large (0.80) and medium farms (0.83). High level of total technical efficiency observed on large farms (0.94) is mainly due to scale efficiency. Small farms are allocatively less efficient than medium and large farms, though gains from improving allocative efficiency exist in 96 percent of the sample farms.

Page(s): 109-124

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Published: Journal: Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Year: 2011

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