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Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants on Maize Seed Production in Palpa District, Nepal

Version 1 : Received: 7 May 2017 / Approved: 8 May 2017 / Online: 8 May 2017 (17:25:58 CEST)

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Sapkota, M.; Joshi, N. P. Factors Associated with the Technical Efficiency of Maize Seed Production in the Mid-Hills of Nepal: Empirical Analysis. International Journal of Agronomy, 2021, 2021, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5542024. Sapkota, M.; Joshi, N. P. Factors Associated with the Technical Efficiency of Maize Seed Production in the Mid-Hills of Nepal: Empirical Analysis. International Journal of Agronomy, 2021, 2021, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5542024.

Abstract

This paper aimed to assess the technical efficiency of maize seed production and the major factors contributing on technical efficiency. Maize is the second most important staple crop in Nepal, but the average yield of maize is very low as compared to other countries having similar agro-climatic requirements. Inefficient use of resources had led to low yield in maize crop. The software Raosoft was used to determine the required sample size and total of 182 samples were selected using simple random technique in June, 2016. Stochastic production frontier model and Tobit model were used to derive the results. The average technical efficiency of maize seed production ranged from 0.25-0.92 with an average of 0.71which revealed the scope of increasing technical efficiency by 29 percent. The majority of the farmers (29.1%) were at higher technical efficiency level of 0.8-0.9 followed by 28.6 percent at 0.7-0.8 and 23.1 percent at 0.6-0.7. Age and schooling of household head, experience on maize seed production, area shared by maize crop and dummies variables such as livestock holding, source of seed and access to extension service had found significantly affecting on the technical efficiency level. For the least developed country like Nepal it would be better to use the available resources wisely and improvement of existing technologies would be more cost effective than that of discovering new technologies. The study recommended that the concerned organizations should focus on mixed agricultural farming system, access to better quality seed and provide technical knowledge which would help in improving technical efficiency.

Keywords

cost effective; stochastic frontier; maize; technical efficiency; tobit

Subject

Business, Economics and Management, Economics

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