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Abstract
This paper compares the technical and allocative efficiencies of collective and
individual production systems. The producers under study are members of
Honduran agrarian reform cooperatives who engage in collective and/or
individual production of maize. Debreu-Farrell technical efficiencies are
calculated relative to a stochastic production frontier. Allocative efficiencies are
obtained from an analytically derived cost frontier. Results indicate that
collective systems are slightly more efficient than individual production systems.