Abstract
The conversion from black tiger shrimp farming and crop farming to white leg shrimp production is widespread in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta provinces. However, this conversion trend also contains many risks related to the technical aspects of the production process. The study mainly aims to estimate the technical efficiency of white leg shrimp farming. It also compares the technical efficiency of white leg shrimp farming between the traditional group that historically has cultivated white leg shrimp and the group that recently converted from black tiger shrimp and crops to white leg shrimp, in order to evaluate the efficiency and adaptability of shrimp farming. Primary data were collected by directly interviewing 99 farmers in traditional areas and 101 farmers in recently converted areas in the study sites and analyzed by using the stochastic frontier method. The calculated technical efficiency was around 72.9 percent, suggesting that farmers could increase their output level by about 27.1%, given constant inputs. There was no difference in the technical efficiency of the two groups, indicating that the converted farms have sufficient adaptability when switching to white leg shrimp farming. The output loss in farmers’ production is still very high, with an average loss of 1973 kg/hectare.
Highlights
Aquaculture is a key economic sector across Vietnam and especially in the Mekong River Delta
By using the latest survey data on a larger scale, especially in the areas that converted from black tiger shrimp and other crops to white leg shrimp farming, this study estimates the technical efficiency in white leg shrimp farming of farmers in the Mekong Delta provinces to accurately assess the efficiency related to the technical aspects of this cultivation
Since shrimp production is an example of single output and multiple-input production, this study focuses on the use of an econometric approach for measuring technical efficiency based on the production frontier model in Cobb–Douglas function form, which was commonly applied to estimate that case, point E represents the technically efficient production and the revenue efficiency associated with point E’, the revenue efficiency is measured as follows: (5)
Summary
Aquaculture is a key economic sector across Vietnam and especially in the Mekong River Delta. There are few recent studies on the input utilization of shrimp farming that estimate the technical efficiency of farmers’ white leg shrimp culture in the Mekong Delta [11].
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