COMPARISON OF TECHNICAL ALLOCATIVE AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF THE PRODUCTION OF AMBER AND JASMINE RICE CULTIVARS USING THE DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS METHOD IN IRAQ FOR THE AGRICULTURAL SEASON 2017

Abstract

The importance of research to promote the cultivation of amber varieties in Iraq, and the elimination of the idea of abandonment of cultivation by professional rice growers to cultivate it for decades to decrease its productivity in the unit area compared to the variant Jasmine, and the price and marketing policy  set out of state did not do justice to this cultivar price, distributed form A questionnaire distributed to a random sample of amber and Jasmine in the governorates of Najaf and Qadissiyah, including 104 farmers planting rice in different areas, divided 80 forms for the farmers of the category Jasmine, 24 forms for the farmers of the category Anavar, and the use of the data Envelope analysis Method (DEA) to estimate the efficiency of production of professionalism, economic efficiency and allocative efficiency assuming stability and change in the yield of the input capacity under the production function variables, and allocative efficiency and economic efficiency were estimated according to the cost function variables.Reached search to The average technical efficiency of the cultivar was found to be 80% and 89%, assuming stability and change in the rate of the amplitude, indicating that a large percentage of the farmers are working within the optimum capacity returns and that the average technical efficiency of the cultivar Jasmine reached 82% and 85% assuming stability and change of capacity returns respectively, indicating However, a smaller proportion of amber rice farmers work beyond the limits of optimum capacity returns. However, the likelihood of productivity and income of dunums for the Jasmine cultivar and the absence of a difference in the average variable costs of the two categories, which justifies the phenomenon of farmers abandoning the rice of amber varieties and their desire to cultivate the cultivar jasmine. The average efficiency of the allocative of Amber and Jasmine is 91%, 89% Their convergence in the reallocation of economic resources to the availability of 9% of productive resources and lower production costs in the same proportion of those resources. Therefore, the research recommended the interest in the cultivation of amber-type rice because of its importance and desire to consume both inside and outside the country to be privileged with some of the desired qualities of the consumer and its obvious advantage about the cultivar Jasmine even if its productivity is lower, and raise the price of amber Rice by the state to encourage cultivation by farmers And compensate his low productivity compared to the Jasmine cultivar.