Abstract

Improving forestry input-output efficiency is significant for increasing farmers income and developing economy in mountainous areas. This paper took the bamboo production in Longyou County, Zhejiang Province as an example, and conducted a two-stage analysis: measuring bamboo farmers input-output efficiency with DEA and comparing the input-output efficiency of bamboo plots with different scales to identify the optimum scale; analyzing the factors affecting the bamboo farmers technical efficiency with the Tobit model on the basis of the measured production efficiency to find out the main determinants. The results indicated that the production efficiency of bamboo famers in Longyou county was comparatively low: average value of comprehensive technical efficiency, net technical efficiency and scale efficiency being 0.448, 0.569 and 0.789 respectively. The ratio of bamboo income to total household income and site quality of bamboo plot had a positive impact on comprehensive technical efficiency, while the number of bamboo plots had a negative impact on comprehensive technical efficiency. The comprehensive technical efficiency of transferred plots was lower than that of non-transfer plots.［Ch, 1 fig. 4 tab. 17 ref.］

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