摘要
Measuring technical efficiency is a popular approach to understand farmers’ performance in seed production. This chapter measures farmers’ technical efficiency (TE) in utilizing seed, chemical fertilizer, labor, livestock, and operational land for producing rice and wheat seed using survey data collected from 180 households across the three Tarai districts of Nepal. The stochastic frontier production model was used for data analysis as it gives us better estimates of efficiency in utilizing the aforementioned resources by removing measurement errors. Results show that farmers are 81 % efficient in utilizing resources; this ranges from 36.7 to 95.2 %. They have also similar technical efficiency level (78.3 %) in wheat seed production, and there is wide variation in efficiency (38.6–94.6 %) across the selected households. The differences in efficiency level are explained by the education of household head, land rent, and farmers’ experience in seed production. This study recommends provision of irrigation facility, soil measurement methods, and vocational training to enhance farmers’ efficiency in rice and wheat seed production.
摘要译文
测量技术效率是了解农民在种子生产中的表现的一种流行方法本章针对农民利用种子技术效率（TE）使用从尼泊尔三个塔莱区180个家庭收集的调查数据，生产水稻和小麦种子的化肥，劳动力，牲畜和作业用地随机边界生产模型被用于数据分析，因为它通过消除测量误差使我们更好地估计利用上述资源的效率结果表明，农民资源利用效率高达81％25。这个范围从36 95 25 他们在小麦种子生产中也有类似的技术效率水平（78 25）所选择的家庭的效率差异很大（38％6％25）。效率水平的差异由户主教育，地租，和农民种子生产经验。本研究建议提供灌溉设施，土壤测量方法，和职业培训，提高农民的水稻和小麦种子生产效率
Narayan Prasad Khanal (3); Keshav Lall Maharjan (3);. Technical Efficiency in Rice and Wheat Seed Production. Community Seed Production Sustainability in Rice-Wheat Farming[M].DE: Springer, 2015: 67-78