Technical efficiency of cotton farmers: Evidence from Punjab (Pakistan)

The paper analyses the technical efficiency of the cotton farmers of the Muzaffargarh District in Punjab province of Pakistan. Data collected from the cotton farmers through the questionnaires study. Data collection carried out for the growing season of 2010–11. Cobb-Douglas production function is specification for the Model. The technical inefficiency effect found to present. The mean predicted technical efficiency of cotton farmers was 0.72 which to be ranging to 0.29 to 0.99. The result of the frontier model points out that cotton production could be increased through increasing the cotton area seed, irrigation, cultivation, labor and fertilizer use while the over use of the pesticides negatively affects. The technical inefficiency model explains that inefficiency of the farmers can reduced through the increasing the farm area education increasing contact to agriculture expert's cultivation owner tube well and fertilizer usage while the technical inefficiency increases through the using Drill for sowing seed and water shortage.