Technical Efficiency of Rice Planting Farmer who are Member and Non-member of Large-scale in the Upper Northern Region
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https://doi.org/10.14456/jare-mju.2024.36Keywords:
technical efficiency, production rice, farmer, large scale rice fieldAbstract
The objective of this study was to measure the technical efficiency of rice production among the farmers who were members of large field groups and those who were not members. The study was conducted by employing the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model with one output factor and eight production factors, and the efficiency level was divided into five levels (lowest – highest). The results showed that the economies of scale of both groups fell in decreasing returns to scale range. In addition, the rice farmers who were members of the large plot group had slightly higher production efficiency than that of the non-members (0.9213 > 0.9065). Notwithstanding that the majority of farmers from both groups had the highest efficiency, the study conducted found that both groups of farmers should reduce the use of production factors, namely the number of workers in production and their agricultural monetary investment.
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