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Introduction

  • Farm efficiency measures acts as a “measuring stick” i.e. needed to provide and standards for accurate decision making regarding the use of resources.
  • One method of production is said to be more efficient than the other when it yields a greater valuable output per unit of a valuable input.
  • Efficiency can be related to:
  1. Operation of farm business as a whole
  2. Any individual place of the business the line of production or enterprise (crop production, livestock and poultry production etc)
  3. The use of various factors of production or resources (land, labor and capital)
  4. To any single input (fertilizer, machines, feed, etc)
  • Various efficiency measures therefore need to be developed to express technical efficiency in various farms enterprises to relate this to financial success.
  • Farm efficiency measures are classified into two broad categories-physical and financial efficiency measures.
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