On Rural Agriculture Technical Efficiency in the Mountainous Area in the West of China with Stochastic Frontier Analysis
The paper studies the technical efficiency of rural households agricultural production in the mountainous areas in Zhouzhi County, Shanxi Province China with stochastic frontier analysis. The results reveal that the average technical efficiency of the local agricultural production is 65.1％. In addition, the output elasticity of land, capital inputs (intermediate materials) and labor inputs are positive, especially the output elasticity of capital is larger. From the results of the technical inefficiency function, the variables of technical training, non-farming business, if there are village or county cadre in the household, and pieces of land have positive effects upon the technical efficiency. However, the household debts show a negative effect on the technical efficiency. Finally the paper proposes some suggestions to improve the technical efficiency such as promoting the surplus labor transfer and the agriculture technology, increasing technical training for farmers, etc.
agriculture technology efficiency stochastic frontier analysis rural household
HU Yibin LI Jie LIU Zhengnan
Institute for Population and Development Studies, School of Public Policy and Administration, Xian Jiaotong University, P.R.China, 710049
国际会议
威海
英文
801-805
2010-07-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）