Farmers' goals and efficiency in the production of sugar cane : the Philippine case
Abstract
This research evaluated the link between Philippine Sugar cane farmers' goals, values and attitudes (and some selected efficiency-related variables) with production efficiency. The analysis was based on both information from informal interviews and formal primary data collection. The Data Envelopment Analysis technique was used to determine the relative efficiencies
of individual farmers and to identify the major factors that influence the efficiency of production. Pure technical, scale, overall technical, allocative and economic efficiency measures were derived for the
sample of sugar cane farmers from the Central Negros area, The Philippines. Under the specification of variable returns to scale (VRS), the mean pure technical, scale, overall technical, allocative and
economic efficiency indices were 0.7580, 0.9884, 0.7298, 0.7941 and 0.6025, respectively.
The farmers' characteristics and their associations with goals and attitudes were determined. The result shows that 'per cent of land owned' is correlated with farmers' decision-making and thus their production efficiency. The study was unique in that it incorporated the farmers' values and attitudes towards farming and production efficiency. The Bootstrap regression method was used to determine the factors affecting
the variations in farmers' efficiency. Factors positively associated with production efficiency include farm experience, exposure to extension and off-farm work; for goals and attitudes - the intrinsic independence goal, the instrumental aspects of farming, leisure orientation, optimistic attitude, and
risk consciousness were all associated with efficiency. The key policy options that must be considered for addressing inefficiencies include education and extension advice, developing the importance of the instrumental aspects of farming, developing group (block) farming as well as farmers' and millers' cooperatives, improved access to credit and improved technology (with emphasis on soil and fertiliser management and the use of improved varieties).... [Show full abstract]
Keywords
Data Envelopment Analysis; technical efficiency; scale efficiency; allocative efficiency; economic efficiency; frontier efficiency analysis; farmer's goals; sugar cane production; PhilippinesFields of Research
140201 Agricultural EconomicsDate
2001-08Type
MonographCollections
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