›› 2011, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (5): 0-1043.

• 食品科学 •    

Analysis of the technical efficiency on citrus production\|empirical study by stochastic frontier production function

CHEN Xin-jian;ZENG Ji-wu;JIN Yan;YI Gan-jun   

  1. Fruit Tree Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2011-09-25 Published:2011-09-25

Abstract:

The cost-benefit panel data of citrus of the five provinces in South China from 2001 to 2009 was used in this paper, and the stochastic production frontier was used to analyze the technical and productive efficiency of citrus farmers in each study region. The results showed that the technical efficiency of Chinas citrus production fluctuated with the time variations and the technical efficiency was different in each province, but the average technical efficiency was on rising trend; the citrus technical efficiency of Hunan, Guangdong and Zhejiang was much higher than other regions; labor cost, natural disaster and citrus pests and diseases are the main factors affecting the technical efficiency of citrus.

Key words: citrus, technical efficiency, stochastic frontier production function