Estimating economic and technical efficiency of mango farms in new lands - Egypt
Associate professor of agricultural economic Agricultural Economic Department, Desert Research Center.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2020, 05(02), 106-125
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2020.5.2.0022
Publication history:
Received on 26 January 2020; revised on 06 February 2020; accepted on 12 February 2020
Abstract:
Mango is the most great economic importance and ranks third in trade after citrus and grapes, especially in the new reclaimed areas, The research aimed to achieve the most efficient use of economic resources available to produce mango crop in Shandorah village in Suez governorate, Egypt, by measuring both the technical efficiency (TE), and economic efficiency (EE), determining the amount of resources that can achieve economic efficiency and estimate the surplus and deficit in the economic resources used in producing this fruit, and assess the difference between the actual used quantities of resources and the optimum quantities that may achieve economic efficiency The research also aims to compare the categories of mango farms most efficient to determine the optimum areas. The research based of primary data, which collected from questionnaires in the concerned area in season 2019. A questionnaire had been made through interviewing 333 of mango responds in Shandora village. The sample have 4 categories according to the area of the farm, the first category less than 1 acer , second category from 1acer to 3 acer, third category from 3 acer to 5 acer and the fourth category more than 5 acer. The goal of the research was to compare the efficiency of these categories, and recommended the optimum size of the farm. The result showed that the fourth category was the best more than the others categories because the farms area in this category is the biggest more than the other farms in the others categories the fourth category was used all the technical efficiency under fixed and variable returns to scale, the best category in allocative efficiency, the optimal because of the farm age the trees stayed in the soil, because the mango is a perennial crop.
Keywords:
Technical Efficiency; Economic Efficiency; Mango; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEAP).
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