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Original Research

MEASURE RICE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY BY APPLYING DEA MODEL

THI DIEU HIEN LE 1, and THI HONG LOC HOANG 2.

Vol 17, No 12 ( 2022 )   |  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7418084   |   Author Affiliation: School of Economics, Can Tho University, Viet Nam 1,2.   |   Licensing: CC 4.0   |   Pg no: 66-76   |   To cite: THI DIEU HIEN LE, and THI HONG LOC HOANG. (2022). MEASURE RICE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY BY APPLYING DEA MODEL. 17(12), 66–76. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7418084   |   Published on: 09-12-2022

Abstract

The objective of the study is to measure the production efficiency of farmers by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The data in the study were collected from 750 rice-farming households in the Mekong Delta region, Vietnam. The DEA helps estimate the production efficiency of rice-producing farmers with the following criteria: technical efficiency (TE), allocative efficiency (AE), cost efficiency (CE), and scale efficiency (SE). The research results show that rice-farming households achieve high SE. Meanwhile, the CE is relatively low. Based on the DEA result, the study indicates that rice farmers should adjust their production scale and input resources to improve production efficiency.

Keywords

scale efficiency, farmer, rice production, DEA