@article{Dhungana:117966,
      recid = {117966},
      author = {Dhungana, Basanta R. and Nuthall, Peter L. and Nartea,  Gilbert V.},
      title = {Measuring the economic inefficiency of Nepalese rice farms  using data envelopment analysis},
      journal = {Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2004},
      number = {428-2016-27624},
      pages = {23},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {A data envelopment analysis of a sample of 76 Nepalese  rice farmers reveals average relative economic, allocative,  technical, pure technical and scale inefficiencies as 34,  13, 24, 18 and 7 per cent, respectively. The significant  variations in the level of inefficiency across sample farms  are attributed to the variations in the ‘use intensities’  of resources such as seed, labour, fertilisers and  mechanical power. In addition, a second stage Tobit  regression shows the variation is also related to  farm‐specific attributes such as the farmers’ level of risk  attitude, the farm manager's gender, age, education and  family labour endowment. Based on the empirical findings,  policy implications and development strategies for  improving efficiency of Nepalese rice farms are briefly  discussed.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/117966},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.117966},
}