Measuring Efficiency of Wheat Production in North Region of Bangladesh

The attempt of the study was to determine some socio-economic characteristics and management practices which influence technical efficiency of wheat production for the 2007-2008 crop year used by cross-sectional data. Technical efficiency was defined as the ratio of the observed output to the corresponding frontier and was estimated from the composed error term. Variations in the technical efficiency index across the production units were explained through a number of farmers and farm characteristics¿ variables following Battese and Coelli (1995) and incorporating the sprit of Rougoor et al. (1998). The yield of wheat varied across location, farmer and farm categories. The average yield was 3503kg/ha with the highest average by trained farmers. The estimates of a generalised stochastic frontier production function models showed that fertiliser, Farm Yard Manner (FYM) and irrigation had significant positive impacts on wheat production. The mean farm-specific technical allocative and economic efficiency of wheat growers were unit¿s ranging from (44 to 97)%.