Factors affecting technical efficiency of small-scale apple farms in Balochistan Plateau, Pakistan

doi:10.1007/s11629-016-3937-z

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	Factors affecting technical efficiency of small-scale apple farms in Balochistan Plateau, Pakistan
	Ghulam MURTAZA; GopalBahadur THAPA
刊名	Journal of Mountain Science
	2017-04
卷号	14 期号:4 页码:782-794
关键词	Small-scale Apple Farmers Technical Efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis (Dea) Bootstrap Efficiency-improving Resources Balochistan Plateau
ISSN号	1672-6316
DOI	10.1007/s11629-016-3937-z
通讯作者	Ghulam MURTAZA
文献子类	期刊论文
英文摘要	In Balochistan,Agriculture is dominated by small-scale farmers and the apple production sector is confronted with the chronic constraint of low output per unit of input. Although some agricultural policies have been implemented in thisprovince, studies on effectiveness and impacts of such policies over apple production and farmers' performance are still limited. This study is an effort to bridge the research gap on this potential crop in the plateau by investigating technical and scale efficiency of 181 officially designated small-scale apple farmers in mountainous district Mastung in Balochistan; then explored factors that underlie differences in production inefficiency. A two-stage input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology was employed to evaluate technical and scale efficiency followed by truncated bootstrapped regression framework to analyze the correlative determinants to efficiency. Average technical and scale efficiencies of larger landholders were higher than medium and small landholders. Analysis indicated that there is still ample scope for inefficient sample farmers to reduce the input use by 33% without compromising the given yield level. Maximum contributions to the total input savings were from the use of urea, farm yard manure (FYM) and labor-use. Farmer's experience, farm ownership, irrigation constraints, and farmer's access to trainings, credit and extension services significantly affectedapplefarmers'technicalefficiency.Based on the findings of this study, strategies are suggested to enhancing efficiencies by farmers' capacitydevelopment through effective extension services and trainings and provision of adequate credit.
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/18558]
专题	Journal of Mountain Science _Journal of Mountain Science-2017_Vol14 No.4
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ghulam MURTAZA,GopalBahadur THAPA. Factors affecting technical efficiency of small-scale apple farms in Balochistan Plateau, Pakistan[J]. Journal of Mountain Science,2017,14(4):782-794.
APA	Ghulam MURTAZA,&GopalBahadur THAPA.(2017).Factors affecting technical efficiency of small-scale apple farms in Balochistan Plateau, Pakistan.Journal of Mountain Science,14(4),782-794.
MLA	Ghulam MURTAZA,et al."Factors affecting technical efficiency of small-scale apple farms in Balochistan Plateau, Pakistan".Journal of Mountain Science 14.4(2017):782-794.