Abstract
All Thai farmers grow rice as the main crop. Rice production in Thailand plays an important role as an important economic crop. In this paper, to measure the technical efficiency of wet season rice production. The objectives were to analyze the efficiency by using an application of data envelopment analysis and used a panel data by Malmquist Index to identify the trend in wet season rice productivity’s change in the crop year 2009/2010 – 2018/2019. The study areas located were in the seventeen provinces in the north of Thailand. The empirical results showed that the average Technical Efficiency (TE) score was 0.892, the highest TE score was 0.920 and the lowest TE score was 0.860 respectively. Phetchabun province provided the best efficiency. Contrary, Tak province where had the worst efficiency among all the producing provinces of wet season rice.
Highlights
The Technical Efficiency (TE) is presented in Table 1 of wet season rice production in 17 provinces where located in Northern Thailand
The findings from this study showed that the average TE of firm during the period from 2009 to 2019 in Phetchabun province was found to be fully efficient with the average TE score of 1.000 followed by 5 provinces where have the high TE score; Chiang Mai, Uthai Thani, Uttaradit, Lamphun, and Chiang Rai with the average TE score of 0.987, 0.960, 0.953, 0.951, and 0.931, respectively
The empirical results suggested that it could be improved the production for increasing the efficiency performance of wet season rice production in Northern Thailand (Table 1)
Summary
Half of Thailand’s cultivated land is dedicated to rice growing. All Thai farmers, especially in the rural areas, grow rice as the main crop. Rice which plays a significant role as an important economic crop, is one of major crops in Thailand and it will remain so as long as it continues to be the major export crop and the staple food. Rice production is an important crop in the Thai economy for two main reasons such as [1] for household’s consumption and [2] for exporting product to a foreign country. Thailand was the world’s largest rice exporter. In 2018/2019, Thailand was the world’s second-larg est exporter with about 10.3 million metric tons of rice after India which had the highest export volume of rice worldwide, at 12.5 million metric tons as of 2018/2019
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
