Abstract:
The main objective of this paper is to estimate the technical, economic and allocative efficiency of Indian agricultural farmers in both cross section and panel year of 1982, 1999 and 2007 using production and cost frontier model. We have estimated this for the crops level such as paddy, wheat, serials, pulses, oil seeds and other crops by appropriate season and for all across crops. We identify the factors affecting the production efficiencies. Here we try to identify the important factors such as household characteristics such as age and education level of the households, land characteristics such as land reforms, land size, land fragmentation and share of modern area to total village area, infrastructure variables such as distance to pucca road and wholesale market, proportion of irrigated area covered by canals, tanks and wells, the government agricultural prices to market prices, the government agriculture extension services, rainfalls, the governance variables such as participation of gram sabha meetings, agricultural expenditure by local government and women reservations. These factors may suggest to identify the policy and investment priorities that will accelerate sustainable agricultural productivity and efficiencies.
