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Comparative study on technical efficiency of mechanized and traditional rice farm in Nepal

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Title Comparative study on technical efficiency of mechanized and traditional rice farm in Nepal
 
Creator Acharya, Prakash
Regmi, Punya Prasad
Gauchan, Devendra
Bahadur, Dilli
Bahadur, Gopal
 
Subject rice
production systems
cobb-douglas function
traditional farming
mechanization
technology
efficiency
función cobb-douglas
mecanización
agricultura tradicional
 
Description The study was conducted among 274 mechanized and 220 traditional rice farms using multistage sampling technique to assess the technical efficiency in rice production among mechanized and traditional farmers in Jhapa, Sunsari and Bardiya districts. The Cobb-Douglas functional form of the stochastic production frontier was employed to obtain the technical efficiency in mechanized and traditional rice farms. The overall technical efficiency of the mechanized and traditional rice farm ranged from 40.31 to 92.23 and 31.21 to 85.02%t with the mean technical efficiency of 80.56 and 70.11% respectively. The scope of increasing output by adopting the technology adopted by the best performer was 19.44% in mechanized and 29.89% in traditional rice farm respectively. Majority of the farmers were operating at an efficiency level 70-80% and 60-70% in mechanized and traditional farms respectively. The average technical efficiency of mechanized rice farm was higher than that of traditional rice farm and the difference was significant. There was scope of increasing output through rational use of existing resources in both farm categories. Manures, chemical fertilizers had significant and positive effect to total yield of rice kg/ha. The effect of machine use to total yield of rice was positive and significant. Rice farms adopting machines were more technically efficient compared to traditional rice farm.
 
Date 2020
2021-01-05T16:44:28Z
2021-01-05T16:44:28Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Acharya, P.; Regmi, P.P.; Gauchan, D.; Bahadur, D.; Bahadur, G. (2020) Comparative study on technical efficiency of mechanized and traditional rice farm in Nepal. Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources 3(2) p. 82-91. ISSN: 2661-6270
2661-6270
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110716
https://doi.org/10.3126/janr.v3i2.32484
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 82-91
application/pdf
 
Publisher Nepal Journals Online (JOL)
 
Source Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources