Productive Efficiency of Potato and Melon Growing Farms in Uzbekistan: A Two Stage Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis

This article is one of the first to carry out a non-parametric efficiency analysis of crop production in Uzbekistan. The study applies the bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute bias corrected technical efficiency (TE) scores using a sample of farms located in two regions of Uzbekistan...

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Published inAgriculture (Basel) Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 503 - 515
Main Author Karimov, Aziz
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2013
Subjects
Agriculture
Data envelopment analysis
DEA
double bootstrapping
Efficiency
Farmers
Farms
Linear programming
Potatoes
Productivity
scale efficiency
technical efficiency
Technology adoption
Uzbekistan
Nigeria
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Summary:This article is one of the first to carry out a non-parametric efficiency analysis of crop production in Uzbekistan. The study applies the bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute bias corrected technical efficiency (TE) scores using a sample of farms located in two regions of Uzbekistan. The study also investigates the determinants of TE in potato and melon production. Results indicate that there is room for efficient use of resources. Farmers are found to be more scale-efficient but not productively efficient. Findings from the second stage DEA model display that soil fertility index, farm size, water availability, crop diversification index, dependency ratio, potential to work in large land area, and longer distance to market contribute positively to production efficiency.
ISSN:2077-0472
2077-0472
DOI:10.3390/agriculture3030503