Technical Efficiency in Agricultural Production and Its Determinants: An Exploratory Study at the District Level

Published By: MSE on eSS | Published Date: June, 15 , 2006

Given the importance of agriculture to the well being of a large percentage of India’s population, it becomes important to study how improvements can be made in the productivity of this sector. This study attempts to estimate the technical efficiency – a measure of how well inputs are being used towards producing output – of about 250 Indian districts in 1990-91. It employs the stochastic frontier function methodology. [Working Paper No. 10] URL: [http://www.mse.ac.in/pub/Working%20Paper%2010%20PDF.pdf]

Author(s): K. R. Shanmugam, Atheendar Venkataramani | Posted on: Mar 15, 2011 | Views(1020) | Download (188)


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