Technical efficiency analysis of hybrid maize production using translog model case study in District Chiniot, Punjab (Pakistan)

Abstract

In Pakistan, maize accounts for 5.93 percent of the total cropped area and 4.82 percent of the value of agricultural production. Given high cost of the production, there is a belief that it is dif-ficult to boost profitability without enhancing use of pricey inputs. Maximum likelihood estimates of stochastic frontier model were estimated and determinants of technical efficiency were calcu-lated. Using Cobb Douglas model estimated ma-ximum likelihood coefficients for all inputs were significant and showed signs according to ex-pectations. The evaluation with the different mo-dels gives different technical efficiencies, which shows that technical efficiency estimations are extremely sensitive to the functional form speci-fied.