@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00016295,
 author = {Manus,  A. Peter},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {南太平洋研究, South Pacific Study},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {The study, conducted using primary data of the smallholder peanut farming in the Kaiapit District of Markham Valley, was to examine the economic efficiency of these farmers in their farm production. The input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model was used to estimate technical and allocative efficiencies, the components of economic efficiency. The results establish that while about 6 percent of the farmers were both technically and allocatively efficient and therefore were economically efficient in their farming operations, the majority of the farmers were found to be economically inefficient. Decomposing technical efficiency into pure technical and scale efficiencies suggests the presence of scale inefficiency by 23 percent. This implies that the farmers were not using their inputs at optimum scale. Of the 69 percent (11 farmers) of the farmers who were found to be scale inefficient, all of them (11 farmers) were operating in the region of increasing returns to scale. Since the majority of the farmers were found to be technically and allocatively inefficient, it is useful for these farmers to shift their resources to more profitable cropping alternatives.},
 pages = {9--20},
 title = {Economic Efficiency of Smallholder Peanut Farming: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Smallholder Producers in the Markham Valley of Papua New Guinea},
 volume = {37},
 year = {2016}
}