Technical efficiency of Sesame farms in Kallakurichi District of Tamil Nadu – A frontier production function approach
*1J. Jeevamathi and **2G. Srinivasan
Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar-608 002 (India) Email: jeevamathi1702@gmail.com Mobile: 9751707076
ABSTRACT
Sesame is the important oilseeds and also very popular crop among the rural farmers. The current research was conducted to analyse the efficiency of sesame farmers in the study area with the following specific objectives: i) To examine the production efficiency of sesame farms in the study area and ii) To suggest the policy recommendations based on the study’s findings. In Tamil Nadu, the Kallakurichi district was selected purposively, then the two top-ranking blocks were selected based on the Sesame area. Afterwards, five top-ranking villages were selected from the selected block and by using probability proportionate sampling, the 120 sample farmers were selected and totally 240 sample famers were selected for the study. Then, the data were analyzed using the stochastic production frontier approach to determine the factors that influence the technical efficiency of sesame farmers in the study area by using R Studio 4.2.2 and Maximum Likelihood test was carried out to test the hypothesis of full technical efficiency. The results showed that the sesame cultivation was found to be technically inefficient and the study recommends to enhance the role of government for educating farmers.