Impact of Energy Subsidies Elimination on Technology Gap Ratio in Cucumber Production
This paper presents an analysis of technical efficiency and technology gap ratio (TGR) in greenhouse cucumber in Fars Province, Iran. Cucumber production was chosen for this study for the reason that greenhouse productions in this province mainly have focused on this product. The data used in th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Islamic Azad University
2017-06-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development |
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| Online Access: | http://ijamad.iaurasht.ac.ir/article_527226_ec85ad9c5a6b02dfa015053c7c010730.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper presents an analysis of technical efficiency and
technology gap ratio (TGR) in greenhouse cucumber in
Fars Province, Iran. Cucumber production was chosen for this
study for the reason that greenhouse productions in this province
mainly have focused on this product. The data used in this
study was obtained from a random sample of 127 greenhouse
s in Fars Province for 2010 to 2011. Metafrontier production
function model for firms was used within the parametric framework
of stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). The frontier models
are applied in the analysis of cross-sectional data by assuming
a translog functional form. Results indicate that eliminating
energy input subsidies has led to significant decrease in greenhouse
cucumber production efficiency so that the mean technical
efficiency declined from 98% to 67 % during 2010-2011. Furthermore,
subsidies elimination has also led to decrease of the
mean technology gap ratio in greenhouses from 0.92 to 0.87,
in other words, it has caused more distance from efficient production
frontier. |
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| ISSN: | 2159-5852 2159-5860 |