Off-Farm Employment and Outsourcing Production Effects on the Technical Efficiency of Farm Households’ Grain Production - A Case with the Data from Liaoning Province, China

Abstract:

This paper analyzed the effects of the off-farm employment and the outsourcing production pattern on the technical efficiency of grain production by the two-step method of DEA-Tobit, based on the data of grain production in the major areas of Liaoning province, in the year of 2011. It observed these findings that off-farm employment and income structure change did not have an effect on technical efficiency. Even then this is evidence that age makes a negative effect on farm technical efficiency but it is weakly. Farm scale and specialization have a positive effect on technical efficiency. And both large farm and small farms scale efficiency is on a high level. So a limited impact on farm technical efficiency comes from farm scale as well as a significant positive impact comes from farms production outsourcing.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 472)
• Pages: 1074-1078
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.472.1074
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Xiao Yan Han, Di Chen, Wen Shi, Jie Lv
• Keywords: DEA, Off-Farm Employment, Production Outsourcing, Technical Efficiency

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