Technical Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors of Farmers’ Meat Sheep Production in China: Based on the Survey Data of Farmers

Xuejiao Wang; Haifeng Xiao

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Technical Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors of Farmers’ Meat Sheep Production in China: Based on the Survey Data of Farmers

Xuejiao Wang, Haifeng Xiao

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Although both meat sheep stocks and mutton yield in China are ranked as the first largest in the world, we observe that meat sheep is not produced with full technical efficiency in the country. A review of existing literature reveals that so far little attention has been given by the researchers in investigating the efficiency of Chinese meat sheep production with micro data on household. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to analyze the technical efficiency of meat sheep production in China using data from 204 meat sheep-rearers. We employ the Translog Stochastic Frontier Production function approach and Technical Efficiency Loss Model respectively. Results indicated that technical efficiency of meat sheep in China is 34.37%. It is also found that education level, scale farming, percent household income from meat sheep, government support and training experience are positive and significantly related to technical efficiency. Although family size has a significant negative impact, it is minimal.

Published in	International Journal of Agricultural Economics (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijae.20160101.12
Page(s)	10-15
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Technical Efficiency, Influencing Factors, Meat Sheep Production, Farmers

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Xuejiao Wang

School of Economics and Management China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Haifeng Xiao

School of Economics and Management China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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