Regional technical efficiency in the Turkish agriculture: a note
Author
Demir, N.
Mahmud, S.
Date
1998Source Title
Indian Economic Review
Print ISSN
0019-4670
Electronic ISSN
2520-1778
Publisher
University of Delhi * Delhi School of Economics
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
197 - 206
Language
English
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Abstract
A panel data, (67 provinces and the years 1993-1995) of the Turkish agriculture, was employed to estimate technical efficiencies for six agricultural regions and 67 provinces using maximum likelihood techniques (ML). Stochastic frontier based on Cobb-Douglas production function with agricultural value added as the endogenous variable and land, labour and capital as the exogenous variables was estimated. Index of capital stocks was obtained by principal component technique. The results show that differences in technical efficiencies by regions and provinces are significant. Furthermore, it has been shown that some of these differences can be explained by location specific factors such as amount of precipitation, market accessibility and population density.