1Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, H.C.D.G. College, Nitaipukhuri, Sivasagar-785 671 (Assam)
2Associate Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786 004 (Assam)
*Corresponding author's email: rkhanikar@gmail.com
Online published on 4 February, 2023.
The study estimates the farm-level environmental efficiency of 432 summer paddy farmers of the Brahmaputra valley of Assam using the translog stochastic frontier analysis. The estimates showed that the mean environmental efficiency for pesticides (0.423) was lower than the joint environmental efficiency for chemical fertilisers and pesticides (0.639). Again, the truncated regression model results indicated that education level, farming experience and access to extension services positively, and access to credit and engagement in tenancy negatively affected the environmental efficiency of the farmers. Therefore access to extension services, the education level of the farmers and access to the credit needs improvement to increase the environmental efficiency at the farm level.
Environmental efficiency, Summer paddy, Translog stochastic frontier analysis, Truncated regression model
