DEA modeling for optimal resource use in rice production

The technique of Data Envelopment Analysis is used in this paper to evaluate the technical efficiency of individual farms cultivating rice for three different villages with different agrarian conditions. The result shows that there is ample scope for improvements in input utilization in all the villages. The importance of productivity management in rice cultivation in terms of improving the technical efficiency of the farmers through proper management and judicious utilization of the resources has been established in this paper.