The Efficiency Measurement of farm productive of young farmers Mahasarakham Province

Abstract

The objective of this research are 1) to study the general information and production system of young farmers in Mahasarakham Province; 2) to study farm productive efficiency of Mahasarakham young farmers; and 3) to analysis the factors effecting the productive efficiency in the farm of young farmers in Mahasarakham Province for 77 farms. The efficiency analysis was used the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for analysis the factor of production focusing on Input Oriented under the assumption Variable Return to Scale (VRS). Then, a Tobit Regression Model was applied to find the factors affecting the efficiency in farm production.

The result of the study has found that young farmers who have efficiency in farm production are 53 persons, consider as 68.8 percent. The analysis of factors affecting production efficiency of young farmers have found in 5 issues; LNIA, LNEXP, LNLF, LNTFC, and TECHPRO.