This paper examines saffron growing farmers' performance in the Kashmir Valley's largest saffron producing district Pulwama by estimating the farm level technical efficiency and its determinants. Using cross-sectional data from 390 saffron growing farmers pertaining to the agricultural year 2016, this study employs the Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier approach with an underlying assumption of the half-normal distribution of the error term. The results confirm wide variations in the sampled farmers' technical efficiency leaving scope to increase production by 41 percent, given the existing resources and technology. An analysis of technical efficiency determinants revealed that farmer experience, education, extension contacts, and family farmworkers are technical efficiency augmenting factors. A higher proportion of saffron land, higher age of the farmer, and access to credit are some of the efficiency retarding factors.