01632nam a22002297a 4500 OSt 20260908140240.0 260908b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 1656-4383 DSSC Huy, Huynh Truong 13528 Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 13434 Technical efficiency of rice-producing households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam / Huynh Truong Huy Los Baños, Laguna : Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture, 2009. pp. 35-50. text unmediated volume vol. 6 no. 2 1656-4383 Technical Efficiency (TE) is an estimation of the ability of a household to produce the maximum output with the given inputs. It is usually estimated by using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Data collected from 261 rice-farming households in the Mekong Delta were used in the empirical analysis. Results show that the average TE among the surveyed households is above 76 percent in both the Constant (CRS) and the Variable Returns to Scale (VRS). The average scale efficiency score for these rice-producing households is nearly one. The determinants of the quantity of rice or yields and of the TE for the households are significantly associated with some variables such as the plot size, seed, and hired labor cost. However, technical inefficiency significantly depends on the farmers' farming experience and adoption of advance farming practices. ddc PINDEX 10289 10289 0 0 ddc 0 0 Per SPMT-CAS SPMT-CAS PER 2026-09-08 0 2026-09-08 14:02:47 2026-09-08 PINDEX