Analysis of farmer's efficiency and growth factors in oil exporting Arabian gulf countries: The case of Oman

P. Sunilda Dharmapala; Lokman Zaibet

doi:10.1504/IJMDM.2006.010244

Analysis of farmer's efficiency and growth factors in oil exporting Arabian gulf countries: The case of Oman

P. Sunilda Dharmapala^*, Lokman Zaibet

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This paper presents a best practice analysis of farmers' technical efficiency and returns to scale in the Sultanate of Oman, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes (CCR) and Banker-Charnes-Cooper (BCC) models are used to compute relative efficiency measures for individual farmers. We used the Two-stage Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method to predict the production output for technically efficient farmers. It identified increasing returns for the industry and showed the positive effect of cropland size and water quantity on production output. We also used factor analysis to describe the variance-covariance structure of the input variables and DEA efficiency measures. It showed the validity of using four inputs under BCC efficiency in terms of percentage of variability explained.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	377-387
Number of pages	11
Journal	International Journal of Management and Decision Making
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMDM.2006.010244
Publication status	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Agriculture
Data envelopment analysis
Factor analysis
Technical efficiency
Two-stage OLS method

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General Decision Sciences

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