A COMPARATIVE STUDYFOR TECHNICALANDECONOMIC EFFICIENCYOF DOMESTICANDHYBRID MAIZEINBABYLONPROVINCEFOR THE SEASON 2013.

K. Al-UKEILI, O.

	A COMPARATIVE STUDYFOR TECHNICALANDECONOMIC EFFICIENCYOF DOMESTICANDHYBRID MAIZEINBABYLONPROVINCEFOR THE SEASON 2013.
The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science
Article 1, Volume 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 584-594
Author
O. K. Al-UKEILI
Abstract
Maize constitutes a high percentage of concentrated feed which caused increasing of its demand. To fulfill these increasing demand farmers used new technique of production most important of which was the usage of hybrid cultivars with high productivity the problem of research is concentrated in the low productivity of maize in spite of government support for maize farmers. The objective of research is to measure the economic and technical efficiency of cultivated maize whether it is domestic cultivar or hybrid and to choose the most suitable one. The results showed that there was no difference in technical efficiency which was derived. These two efficiencies were derived by using the variables of production function which were 0.55,058 for domestic and hybrid cultivar respectively and the hybrid cultivar was more efficient in comparison with domestic cultivar. The allocative efficiency was 0.67 and 71 for domestic and hybrid cultivars respectively which showed that the hybrid was more efficient than domestic cultivar the economic efficiency was 0.37 and 0.46 for domestic and hybrid cultivar respectively. Thus the hybrid cultivar was more efficient economically than domestic one due to its high productivity. This showed that hybrid cultivar farms were more efficient in resource allocation and in achieving high profits. According to these results it is recommended to expand the cultivation of hybrid cultivar.
Keywords
Technical and economic efficiency; Data Envelopment

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