Estimating the potato farming efficiency: A comparative study between stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis.

ABSTRACT:

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,

SUBMITTER: Sultana S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10101415 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature