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Analysis of farmers' efficiency and growth factors in oil exporting Arabian gulf countries: the case of Oman

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  • P. Sunil Dharmapala
  • Lokman Zaibet

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This paper presents a best practice analysis of farmers' technical efficiency and returns to scale in the Sultanate of Oman, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes (CCR) and Banker-Charnes-Cooper (BCC) models are used to compute relative efficiency measures for individual farmers. We used the Two-stage Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method to predict the production output for technically efficient farmers. It identified increasing returns for the industry and showed the positive effect of cropland size and water quantity on production output. We also used factor analysis to describe the variance-covariance structure of the input variables and DEA efficiency measures. It showed the validity of using four inputs under BCC efficiency in terms of percentage of variability explained.

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  • P. Sunil Dharmapala & Lokman Zaibet, 2006. "Analysis of farmers' efficiency and growth factors in oil exporting Arabian gulf countries: the case of Oman," International Journal of Management and Decision Making, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(4), pages 377-387.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmdma:v:7:y:2006:i:4:p:377-387
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    1. Mosbah, Ezzeddine & Zaibet, Lokman & Dharmapala, P. Sunil, 2020. "A new methodology to measure efficiencies of inputs (outputs) of decision making units in Data Envelopment Analysis with application to agriculture," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).

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