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The extent and determinants of production efficiency of farmers in the rainforest margins in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia: Implications for land use and support services

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Title The extent and determinants of production efficiency of farmers in the rainforest margins in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia: Implications for land use and support services
 
Creator Alene, D.
Zeller, M.
Schwarze, S.
Nuryartono, N.
 
Subject deforestation
farmers
agricultural land and technology
technical efficiency
agricultural production
stochastic frontier
rice
markets
 
Description There has been widespread concern regarding agricultural land expansion through deforestation, and a number of policy options have been proposed to counteract this trend. However, little effort has been made to assess the role of more efficient use of existing agricultural land and technology in combating deforestation. This study uses a translogstochastic frontier production function to analyze the technical efficiency of a sample of fanners in the rainforest margins in Indonesia. The sample farmers have an average technical efficiency of 53%, suggesting that there is a considerable potential for increasing production through efficient use of existing agricultural land and available technology. An analysis of socio-economic and institutional factors revealed that education, extension services, and social capital have a positive and significant influence on the fanners' performance.
 
Date 2005
2018-03-23T06:48:56Z
2018-03-23T06:48:56Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Alene, D., Zeller, M., Schwarze, S. & Nuryartono, N. (2005). The extent and determinants of production efficiency of farmers in the rainforest margins in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia: implications for land use and support services. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 44(4), 335-353.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/91875
 
Language en
 
Rights Limited Access