Korean Journal of Agricultural Science (농업과학연구)

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An Analysis on Technical Efficiency of Apiculture Farming in Korea

양봉농가의 기술적 효율성 분석

  • Yeo, Min-Su (Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Hong, Seung-Jee (Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Chungnam National University)
  • 여민수 (충남대학교 농업경제학과) ;
  • 홍승지 (충남대학교 농업경제학과)
  • Received : 2010.11.07
  • Accepted : 2010.12.13
  • Published : 2010.12.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the technical efficiency and its determinants for Korean Apiculture farming by using from door to door and e-mail inquiry data. The analysis was implemented through the Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function (SFPF) model including the technical inefficiency effect model for cross-sectional data. To measure the SFPF model, honey production was used for a dependent variable, and for input variables labor cost, preventive cost, material cost, feeding cost, depreciation cost were used. Farmer's age, farmer's career, farming scale, full-time or half-time firm and movement or fixed firm variables were used to measure the inefficiency effect model. The average technical efficiency on apiculture farming in Korea is estimated to be 0.8112. It means that there were technical inefficiency of about 18.88% in Korea apiculture farming. In this study there are some suggestions which could increase the technical efficiency of Korean apiculture farming.

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