An application of Stochastic Frontier in Estimating the Technical Efficiency of smallholder Cereal Crop Producers: The Case of seven Peasant Associations (Pas) in the Amhara Region
| dc.contributor.advisor | Alemu, Tekie(Dr.) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tilahun., Awoke | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-23T13:19:13Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T10:30:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-23T13:19:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T10:30:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study tried to predict the technical efficiency levels of farmers over time and the factors that are responsible to the variation in technical efficiencies among farmers. We considered seven peasant associations (PAs) in Amhara region from the four year agricultural households survey panel data that has been conducted by the Department of Economics (Addis Ababa University). Parameters from the stochastic frontier and the technical inefficiency effects model have been estimated simultaneously. A more flexible stochastic frontier production functional form, i.e. , the translog, for farmers in Milki, Karafino, Bokafya and Shumsheha and the Cobb Douglas stochastic frontier production functional form for farmers in other PAs have been found to be appropriate production technologies in estimating the farm level technical efficiencies. The hypothesis that farmers are fully technically efficient so that the conventional (average) production function is adequate has been rejected for all PAs. For two of the PAs (Milki and Shumsheha), appropriate technical efficiency predictions have been obtained based on a truncated normal distribution of the inefficiency term whereas a half normal distribution of the inefficiency term gave good predictions of farm level technical efficiencies for the rest of the PAs. The results in all PAs show the existence of technical inefficiency implying that there is a hope, at least for a short run, to increase agricultural production only by improving the technical efficiency of farmers. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/27328 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | A.A.U | en_US |
| dc.subject | Amhara Region | en_US |
| dc.subject | Estimating the Technical | en_US |
| dc.title | An application of Stochastic Frontier in Estimating the Technical Efficiency of smallholder Cereal Crop Producers: The Case of seven Peasant Associations (Pas) in the Amhara Region | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |