Measuring Technical Efficiency of Small-Scale Farms of Beef Cattle Farming in Selected Areas of Bangladesh
Author (s)
Md. Rezaul Islam
Abstract
The stochastic production frontier was employed to estimate the technical efficiency of small-scale beef cattle farmers. Two Upazilas from the Rajbari district of Bangladesh were purposively selected as the study area. The snowball technique was adopted to select seventy (70) beef cattle farmers for data collection with structured questionnaires in collecting data for the study. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique was used in estimating the coefficients of the logarithmic form of the Cobb-Douglass Production function by SPSS 25 and their determinants in the study area. Linear Programming (LP) was used to estimate technical efficiency by using Microsoft Excel 2013. The mean technical efficiency of the beef cattle farmers was 87%. The results confirm that in some cases, the beef cattle farmers were technically inefficient, implying that there is room to improve 13% technical efficiency with the farmers’ current resources and available technology. Age (Table 4) of the farmers had negative but significant effects on their technical efficiency, while education, farming experience, and farm size had significant and positive influences on farmer’s technical efficiency. Among the dummy variables, the coefficient of training facilities is negative which reveals that there is a scope of increasing the production of beef cattle by improving the quality and regularity of training. For that, policies that would encourage experienced and educated farmers, to continue beef cattle farming are recommended.
Key words: Beef cattle farmers, technical efficiency, small scale, snowball technique, stochastic frontier, Ordinary Least Square Estimating (OLS).
| Title: | Measuring Technical Efficiency of Small-Scale Farms of Beef Cattle Farming in Selected Areas of Bangladesh |
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| Author: | Md. Rezaul Islam |
| Journal Name: | Journal of Scientific Reports |
| Website: | https://ijsab.com/jsr |
| Publisher | IJSAB International |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.58970/JSR.1054 |
| Media: | Online |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Acceptance Date: | 30/10/2024 |
| Date of Publication: | 7/11/2024 |
| PDF URL: | https://ijsab.com/wp-content/uploads/1054.pdf |
| Free download: | Available |
| Page: | 244-256 |
| First Page: | 244 |
| Last Page: | 256 |
| Paper Type: | Research Paper |
| Current Status: | Published |
Cite This Article:
Islam, M. R. (2024). Measuring Technical Efficiency of Small-Scale Farms of Beef Cattle Farming in Selected Areas of Bangladesh, Journal of Scientific Reports, 7(1), 244-256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58970/JSR.1053
About Author (s)
Md. Rezaul Islam, PhD Fellow, Institute of Bangladesh Studies (IBS), Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6735-8318
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58970/JSR.1054