SEISENSE Journal of Management
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2018): SEISENSE Journal of Management

Technical Efficiency for Tea Smallholder Farmers under UTZ Certification System in Sri Lanka: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Hunuwala Malawarage Suranjan Priyanath (Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka)
S.P. Premaratne (Department of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.)
Amina Yoosuf (Nucleus Foundation, Kandy.)
D. Maurice (Nucleus Foundation, Kandy.)

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Publish Date
17 Apr 2018

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the determinants of the technical efficiency of Smallholder Tea Farmers (STFs) under UTZ certification system in Sri Lanka by employing stochastic production frontier using a sample survey of 75 STFs supported by the UTZ programme conducted between January and March in 2016. The results showed that a small number of STFs (11.8 percent) were over 90 percent efficient and the level of efficiency was found to be negatively related to coefficients of UTZ certified STFs and positively related to number of years with the same plants. The results further showed the labor and fertilizer were the significant factors that determine the tea production of STFs.

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SEISENSE Journal of Management
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jom

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SEISENSE (PRIVATE) LIMITED

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Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

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SEISENSE Journal of Management (SJOM) peer-reviewed and published as Bi-Monthly (six issues in a year), is committed to publishing scholarly empirical and theoretical research articles that have a high impact on the management field as a whole. SEISENSE JoM covers domains such as Business strategy & ...