Abstract
Tomato is one of the major vegetables in Bangladesh that experienced massive productivity growth after independence. Nevertheless, farmers are struggling to find out optimal input combination in their farm that causes inefficient input use. Therefore, this study estimated the factors affecting efficiency of tomato farmers in Mymensingh of Bangladesh. Input oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was employed for measuring efficiency while Tobit regression model was used to estimate the factors affecting efficiency. A total of 60 tomato farmers were selected using random sampling technique. Mean technical efficiency for tomato farmers was 0.83 implies that tomato farmers can reduce their input use by 17%. Education, training and high yielding variety adoption had positive effect on efficiency while age of tomato farmer’s had negative effect on efficiency. Efficiency increased with the farmer’s education, training and variety adoption. Farmer’s adopting local high yielding variety was more efficient than that of exotic high yielding variety. In addition, efficiency of farmers reduced with their age. Improvement of tomato farmer’s efficiency is possible if farmers received education, training and local high yielding variety.J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 16(1): 93-97, April 2018
Highlights
World vegetable production has boosted up and witnessed about 330% growth within last 50 years (FAOSTAT, 2016; Weinberger and Genova, 2005)
Tomato production has reached in 177042 thousand tons in 2016 that occupies about 60% of total fresh vegetable production in the world (Mitra and Prodhan, 2018)
Mean technical efficiency for tomato was 0.83 which means that tomato farmers could reduce their input use by 17% when output held constant
Summary
World vegetable production has boosted up and witnessed about 330% growth within last 50 years (FAOSTAT, 2016; Weinberger and Genova, 2005). Tomato production has reached in 177042 thousand tons in 2016 that occupies about 60% of total fresh vegetable production in the world (Mitra and Prodhan, 2018). This massive productivity growth amplifies incomes for laborers, empowered women and created new employment opportunities for landless farmers in developing countries (SOFA team et al, 2011; Weinberger and Genova, 2005). History of Tomato farming in Bangladesh is not apparent It was evolved in South America over millions of years ago and arrived in Asia in early 19th century (Vegetable Facts, 2018). Massive productivity growth within last 50 years is presented by upward sloping curve (Figure 1)
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