The determinants of technical efficiency of cotton farmers in the Southern Punjab (Pakistan)

The paper analyses the technical efficiency of cotton farmers in southern Punjab of Pakistan. The samples of 100 cotton growing respondent randomly selected from different villages of Rahim Yar Khan District. Data collected through questionnaires for study. The Cobb-Douglas production function found to be an adequate representation of data. The technical inefficiency effect found to present. The mean predicted technical efficiency of cotton farmers was0.87 which to be ranging to 0.17 to 0.97. The result of the frontier model points out that cotton production could increased through increasing cotton area, pesticides, irrigation, cultivation, labor and fertilizer use. The technical inefficiency model explains that inefficiency of farmers could reduce through the increase in education increasing contact to agriculture expert's own tubewell and sowing timely.