Abstract

Indonesia’s palm oil plantation is dominated by three actors. Among three actors, the productivity of smallholder farmers has the lowest productivity. This study aims to analyze the value of technical efficiency and factors affecting the technical inefficiency of palm oil plantations in Indonesia by using the stochastic frontier analysis based on the translog production function. The data used in this study are taken from the Central Statistics Agency (Agricultural Business Household Income Survey) in 2013. The number of samples used was 14,367 farmers. The results revealed that the average value of technical efficiency (58.32%) is still far to reach its optimal, showing that there is still to increase in the efficiency of palm oil plantations in Indonesia. The production function suggests that increasing the number of trees can help to increase the number of outputs. To enhance the technical efficiency, education, age, planting system, seed quality, extension service, and plasma farmer are the significant factors.

Details

Title
Analysis of factors affecting the technical inefficiency on Indonesian palm oil plantation
Author
Irawati, Abdul 1 ; Wulan, Sari Dyah 2 ; Haryanto Tri 2 ; Thinzar, Win 3 

 State of Gorontalo University, Department of Economics, Gorontalo, Indonesia (GRID:grid.443316.7) (ISNI:0000 0000 9015 269X) 
 Airlangga University, Department of Economics, Surabaya, Indonesia (GRID:grid.440745.6) (ISNI:0000 0001 0152 762X) 
 Mandalay University, Department of Economics, Mandalay, Myanmar (GRID:grid.440498.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9286 0016) 
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2634668309
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.