Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers

Background: Cooperatives are considered as efficient institutional innovation for smallholders to access input and output; Cooperatives can help balance the power between contractors and smallholders in contract farming (CF); Cooperatives play an integral role in CF in Nepal (Mishra et al. 2018); Th...

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Main Authors: Khanal, Aditya R., Mishra, Ashok K., Kumar, Anjani
Format: Poster
Language:Inglés
Published: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146656
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author Khanal, Aditya R.
Mishra, Ashok K.
Kumar, Anjani
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description Background: Cooperatives are considered as efficient institutional innovation for smallholders to access input and output; Cooperatives can help balance the power between contractors and smallholders in contract farming (CF); Cooperatives play an integral role in CF in Nepal (Mishra et al. 2018); The relationship between participation in agricultural cooperatives and farm performance is not fully conclusive; some studies have explored the production efficiency about cooperative membership (Abate et al. 2014; Gedara et al. 2012) and have found mixed evidence about the relationship; None of the previous studies have examined the relationships between cooperative membership and technical efficiency for the high-value crops, like tomato in a developing country context; This study estimates the selectivity-corrected stochastic frontier analysis for the tomato growers in Nepal, accounting for selection bias in efficiency estimation, emphasizing the role of cooperative CF on technical efficiency.
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spelling CGSpace1466562025-06-06T15:09:52Z Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers Khanal, Aditya R. Mishra, Ashok K. Kumar, Anjani efficiency agricultural production cooperative farming analysis labour tomatoes land contract farming yield factors Background: Cooperatives are considered as efficient institutional innovation for smallholders to access input and output; Cooperatives can help balance the power between contractors and smallholders in contract farming (CF); Cooperatives play an integral role in CF in Nepal (Mishra et al. 2018); The relationship between participation in agricultural cooperatives and farm performance is not fully conclusive; some studies have explored the production efficiency about cooperative membership (Abate et al. 2014; Gedara et al. 2012) and have found mixed evidence about the relationship; None of the previous studies have examined the relationships between cooperative membership and technical efficiency for the high-value crops, like tomato in a developing country context; This study estimates the selectivity-corrected stochastic frontier analysis for the tomato growers in Nepal, accounting for selection bias in efficiency estimation, emphasizing the role of cooperative CF on technical efficiency. 2019-10-21 2024-06-21T09:07:58Z 2024-06-21T09:07:58Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146656 en Open Access Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Khanal, Aditya R.; Mishra, Ashok K.; and Kumar, Anjani. 2019. Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers. Presented at the AAEA Annual Meeting in Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, United States, July 21-23, 2019. https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/291147
spellingShingle efficiency
agricultural production
cooperative farming
analysis
labour
tomatoes
land
contract farming
yield factors
Khanal, Aditya R.
Mishra, Ashok K.
Kumar, Anjani
Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers
title Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers
title_full Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers
title_fullStr Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers
title_full_unstemmed Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers
title_short Cooperative membership, contracts, and production efficiency: A selectivity-corrected analysis of smallholder farmers
title_sort cooperative membership contracts and production efficiency a selectivity corrected analysis of smallholder farmers
topic efficiency
agricultural production
cooperative farming
analysis
labour
tomatoes
land
contract farming
yield factors
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146656
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