How Inefficient Really Are the Small-Scale Rice Farmers in Eastern India?: Examining the Effects of Microtopography on the Estimation of Technical Efficiency

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dc.creatorFuwa, Nobuhiko
dc.creatorEdmonds, Christopher M.
dc.creatorBanik, Pabitra
dc.date2017-04-01T13:51:34Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T03:27:45Z
dc.descriptionWe focus on the impact of failing to control for differences in land types defined along toposequence on estimates of farm technical efficiency for small-scale rice farms in eastern India. In contrast with the existing literature, we find that those farms may be considerably more technically efficient than they appear from more aggregated analysis without such control. Farms planted with modern rice varieties are technically efficient. Furthermore, farms planted with traditional rice varieties operate close to the production frontier on less productive lands (upland and mid-upland), but significant technical inefficiency exists on more productive lands (medium land and lowland).
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.19435
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/19435/files/sp05fu01.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/19435
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/532965
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/19435
dc.titleHow Inefficient Really Are the Small-Scale Rice Farmers in Eastern India?: Examining the Effects of Microtopography on the Estimation of Technical Efficiency
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