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Estimating the potato farming efficiency: A comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis
BACKGROUND: The government of Bangladesh has been trying to encourage potato consumption to reduce pressure on rice consumption and earn foreign currency along with ensuring zero hunger that helps to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal. It is necessary to use farmers’ resources and current tech...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101415/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37053255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284391 |
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author | Sultana, Shamima Hossain, Md. Moyazzem Haque, Md. Nurul |
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description | BACKGROUND: The government of Bangladesh has been trying to encourage potato consumption to reduce pressure on rice consumption and earn foreign currency along with ensuring zero hunger that helps to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal. It is necessary to use farmers’ resources and current technology more efficiently to meet the demand. Therefore, the authors aimed to evaluate the farm-level efficiency of potato farming in Bangladesh. METHODS AND MATERIALS: The Cobb-Douglas Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and the input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methods are used to compute farm-level technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies and inefficiency of potato farming. The primary data were collected through interviews of 300 potato farmers from Munshigonj, Rangpur, Dinajpur, and Joypurhat districts of Bangladesh. RESULTS: The findings revealed that the efficiency score of the SFA model is higher than the DEA model, which implies that the SFA frontier fits better than the DEA frontier. In the case of DEA, variable returns to scale (VRS) technical efficiency (TE) enveloped data more closely than constant returns to scale (CRS) TE. Results of efficiency suggest significant economic, technical, and allocative inefficiencies in potato farming and there is a scope to increase potato production levels through efficiency improvement. Inefficiency analysis shows that infrastructure and socio-economic factors jointly influence potato production variability. CONCLUSIONS: The authors suggest for using the SFA to find efficiencies in the agriculture sector. To achieve efficiency in potato production, the government needs to pay attention for improving the allocative and economic efficiencies along with emphasizing to choose the appropriate technology and efficient use of resources for the scale of operation. |
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spelling | pubmed-101014152023-04-14 Estimating the potato farming efficiency: A comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis Sultana, Shamima Hossain, Md. Moyazzem Haque, Md. Nurul PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: The government of Bangladesh has been trying to encourage potato consumption to reduce pressure on rice consumption and earn foreign currency along with ensuring zero hunger that helps to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal. It is necessary to use farmers’ resources and current technology more efficiently to meet the demand. Therefore, the authors aimed to evaluate the farm-level efficiency of potato farming in Bangladesh. METHODS AND MATERIALS: The Cobb-Douglas Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and the input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methods are used to compute farm-level technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies and inefficiency of potato farming. The primary data were collected through interviews of 300 potato farmers from Munshigonj, Rangpur, Dinajpur, and Joypurhat districts of Bangladesh. RESULTS: The findings revealed that the efficiency score of the SFA model is higher than the DEA model, which implies that the SFA frontier fits better than the DEA frontier. In the case of DEA, variable returns to scale (VRS) technical efficiency (TE) enveloped data more closely than constant returns to scale (CRS) TE. Results of efficiency suggest significant economic, technical, and allocative inefficiencies in potato farming and there is a scope to increase potato production levels through efficiency improvement. Inefficiency analysis shows that infrastructure and socio-economic factors jointly influence potato production variability. CONCLUSIONS: The authors suggest for using the SFA to find efficiencies in the agriculture sector. To achieve efficiency in potato production, the government needs to pay attention for improving the allocative and economic efficiencies along with emphasizing to choose the appropriate technology and efficient use of resources for the scale of operation. Public Library of Science 2023-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10101415/ /pubmed/37053255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284391 Text en © 2023 Sultana et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Sultana, Shamima Hossain, Md. Moyazzem Haque, Md. Nurul Estimating the potato farming efficiency: A comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis |
title | Estimating the potato farming efficiency: A comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis |
title_full | Estimating the potato farming efficiency: A comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis |
title_fullStr | Estimating the potato farming efficiency: A comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Estimating the potato farming efficiency: A comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis |
title_short | Estimating the potato farming efficiency: A comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis |
title_sort | estimating the potato farming efficiency: a comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101415/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37053255 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284391 |
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