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    Technical Efficiency of Cattle Farming in Moneragala Veterinary Region –A Stochastic Frontier Approach-
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2013) Thiwyadharsan, R.
    In economics, it is well recognized that resources involved in the production process are limited in supply and the scare resources should be efficiently used without wasting. Efficient utilization depends on managerial ability of entrepreneurs-farmers, firm, etc. Available literature suggests that farmers in the developing countries fail to exploit the full potential of a technology and make allocative errors. Thus, increasing the efficiency in production assumes greater significance in attaining potential output at the farm level. However it is an undeniable fact that the majority of dry zone dairy farmers are characterized by poor economic status due to inefficient utilization of available resources. This paper investigates the economic and technical efficiency of dairy farming in Moneragala veterinary region in Sri Lanka and to suggest some policy recommendation for improving the efficiency of resource use. The experiment sites were ten villages in Moneragala veterinary region and respective villages were randomly selected based on the list of district. The empirical study was carried based on a sample of 80 farmers in selected villages. In this study, the technical efficiency of dairy farmers was estimated by using stochastic frontier production function, incorporating technical efficiency effect model. The Cobb Douglas production function was found to be an adequate representation of the data. According to the results obtained from the stochastic frontier estimation, the average technical efficiency of selected farmers given by the Cobb Douglas model is 69 per cent. This indicates that there is scope of farther increasing the output by 31 percent without increasing the level of input. The analysis using the Cobb-Douglas function indicated miss-allocation of resources in most of the location in the sample area due to managerial inability of farmers.
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    Technical Efficiency of Cattle Farming in Moneragala Veterinary Region: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2013) Thiwyadharsan, R.; Rathnayaka, R.M.S.D.; Samaraweera, A.M.
    “Farming System is a complex inter-related matrix of soil, plants, animals, implements, power, labour, capital and other inputs controlled in parts by farming families and influenced to varying degrees by political, economic, institutional and social forces that operate at many levels” (Mahapatra, 1992). Dairy sector is the most important of all livestock sub sectors primarily because of the influence it can make on the rural economy. Dairy sector is predominantly based on small holders keeping 2-5 cows. In the dry zone the herds tend to be large, though the animals are mostly of the indigenous types with poor milk yields. However, the production of milk in Sri Lanka has still not yet met the national demand. Increasing the efficiency in production assumes greater significance in attaining potential output at the farm level. There are comparatively less research on ‘technical efficiency’ of dairy farming in Sri Lanka. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the important socio economic determinants of milk production and thereby to find out the technical efficiency of milk production in Moneragala veterinary region. Methodology The Moneragala Veterinary region was selected for this study. The Veterinary regions were arranged in descending order of livestock population. The Moneragala Veterinary region, which has maximum number of livestock population in the district, was selected for the study. A multi stage random sampling technique was used for the selection of the sample/respondent. The study covered 10 villages of Moneragala veterinary region to form the sample of 80 respondents. The data collection was carried out by using the structured questionnaire. This questionnaire was subjected to the pre testing by the survey of ten samples. Empirical model and variables Stochastic Frontier production models (Cobb-Douglas production & inefficiency function) were employed to identify the contributory factors for milk production and the technical efficiency of farmers using dependent variable and independent variables. . Data were coded and analyzed by using the Statistical Package of STATA 11.0 and Minitab 15 software package.