@article{Velarde:152203,
      recid = {152203},
      author = {Velarde, Orlee and Pede, Valerien O.},
      title = {Pattern of investment allocation to chemical inputs and  technical efficiency: A stochastic frontier analysis of  farm households in Laguna, Philippines},
      address = {2013-02},
      number = {424-2016-27097},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {This study focuses on the pattern between investment in  chemical inputs such as fertilizer, pesticides  and
herbicides and technical efficiency of farm households  in Laguna, Philippines. Using a one‐stage  maximum
likelihood estimation procedure, the stochastic  production frontier model was estimated simultaneously with  the
determinants of efficiency. Results show that farmers  with a low technical efficiency score have a high  investment
share in chemical inputs. Farmers who invested  more in chemical inputs relative to other variable inputs  attained
the same or even lower output and were less  efficient than those farmers who invested less. The result  shows that
farmers who invested wisely in chemical inputs  can encourage farmers to apply chemical inputs more  optimally.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/152203},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.152203},
}