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Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for assessing the efficiency of Laser Land Leveling Technology in Punjab Agriculture Singh Taptej, Kaur Baljinder* Technology Marketing and IPR Cell Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana – 141004, Punjab, India *Corresponding author: baljindersidana@gmail.com
Online published on 29 May, 2014. Abstract This study was carried out to assess technical efficiency in wheat and paddy cultivation with regard to laser land leveling technology in two regions of Central Punjab. For this purpose, the data were collected from 80 farmers, using multi-stage random sampling method. The results indicated that those sample farmers whose fields were leveled with laser leveler were better water managers. The results revealed that the reduction in the use of inputs by up to 23% will make the sample farmers reach the optimum scale of efficiency. The adoption of laser land leveling technology resulted into water saving of 28% and 12% in paddy and wheat crops, respectively. Further, the incremental increase in returns over variable cost was  3311 per ha in paddy crop, whereas it was 4268 per ha in wheat crop. Top Keywords Region, Technical, Optinum, Adoption. Top | |
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