Technical Efficiency in Sugarcane Crop - A Stochastics Frontier Analysis

Abstract

The paper assesses socio-economic, and technical efficiency of sugarcane farmers in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh. 120 farmers samples were collected from four villages in two blocks. The study point out that marginal farmers were more younger and medium farmers were more educated and wealthier than the others. The stochastic frontier model was used to find out the technical efficiency of sample farmers of sugarcane crop. The farm resources human labour, seed and irrigation found statically significant in all groups of farms. Inefficiency was impacted negatively and significantly by farm equipment and positively and significantly by family size; Farmers can improve profit efficiency by increasing farm equipment and a smaller number of family members was inversely affect the efficiency. Distribution of sugarcane farm maximum under 70-80 percent of 49 farms (40.0 per cent) and only 4 farms (3.30 per cent) have the maximum efficiency score above 90 per cent.