TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carbonell, Alessa Keith E.
AU  - Digal, Larry N.
TI  - Assessing the effects of irrigation on the technical efficiency and productivity of rice farmers in M'lang, North Cotabato, Philippines before and during the pandemic periods
PY  - 2023///
KW  - Undergraduate Thesis
KW  - ABE200b
N1  - Thesis --
N2  - Rice production plays a vital role in the economic and food industry of the country. As the population grows exponentially, the domestic rice demand increases proportionally; leaving local rice farmers struggling in filing the huge domestic rice production volume’s huge gap. Thus, through improving their input usage, resolving the issue of inequitable water sources, especially amidst pandemic could help makes them more productive and technically efficient. In M’lang, being a top rice producer of North Cotabato, it has two prominent farm types which are rainfed and irrigated rice farms. This relates to the objectives of this study in determining the levels of technical efficiency and profitability of both irrigated and rainfed rice farms in M’lang, Cotabato; estimate their corresponding productivity; determine the factors affecting farmers’ technical inefficiency; and assess the role of farmers’ associations, NIA, and the government in harassing the local rice productivity and technical efficiency of farmers in the two periods. A descriptive statistic was employed in determining their level of profitability; while in estimating both the productivity and determinants of technical inefficiency of the rice farmers, a Stochastic Frontier Analysis using the Cobb-Douglas production function and Tobit regression. The irrigated rice farmers were more productive than the rainfed in both before and during the pandemic periods given by the higher levels of input usage. The quantity of seeds, fertilizers, total land area, total labor days, family and hired labor type usage, land tenant, and lined irrigation were found to be significantly increasing the productivity levels of the rice farmers in M’lang. Meanwhile, age contributed to their technical inefficiency, but sex, farming experience, frequency of extension services of NIA personnel, and irrigation access reduce it. However, both of the farm types’ technical efficiency and profitability levels drastically dropped from the two periods of the same dry cropping season
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