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Measuring technical efficiency and total factor productivity in agriculture: the case of the South Marmara region of Turkey

Tolga Tipi
Erkan Rehber

Department of Agricultural Economics
Faculty of Agriculture
Uludag University
Bursa, Turkey
ttipi@uludag.edu.tr

Abstract  The measurement of technical efficiency and productivity growth in the agricultural sector of developing and developed countries has received renewed attention in recent decades. The use of frontier approaches such as the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) have become more popular in efficiency and productivity measurement. The main purpose of this study is to measure agricultural technical efficiency and total factor productivity using DEA and the DEA-based Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index in the South Marmara region of Turkey in the period 1993–2002. An output-oriented DEA model is used for estimating technical efficiency and the Malmquist TFP index of agricultural sector with aggregate panel data in the South Marmara region of Turkey. Calculated average technical efficiency score and Malmquist TFP index for region in period 1993–2002 are 88.3 and 3.1%, respectively.

Keywords  data envelopment analysis; technical efficiency; total factor productivity

A05032; Received 1 July 2005; accepted 31 January 2006; Online publication date 9 May 2006
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 2006, Vol. 49: 137–145
0028–8233/06/4902–0137 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2006

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