A Study on Technical Efficiency of Rice Production in India-DEA Rathi S. Jasmine1, Prakash V.2 1Doctorate Research Scholar, Department of Statistics, Presidency College (Autonomous), Chennai, India 2Head and Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Presidency College (Autonomous), Chennai-India Online published on 5 August, 2019. Abstract Rice is the chief grains and a pre-eminent crop of India. India has the largest area under rice cultivation; it flourishes comfortably in hot and humid climate. This paper analyses the efficiency of rice production in India using DEA. Data envelopment analysis is a non-parametric technique used to evaluate technical efficiencies of “Decision Making Units” (DMU). The secondary data used in this study is obtained from the Agriculture Statistics at a Glance. The sample consists of 24 states covering all over India during 2014–2015. Each state is considered as a DMU and each DMU includes two inputs namely area and irrigations and two outputs namely production and yield. The result reveals that 12 states are efficient and 12 states are inefficient. Peer group or the reference set for each inefficient DMUs are presented. Finally, all the efficient states are ranked based on peer count summary. Tamil Nadu stood first in ranking, West Bengal and Jharkhand shares the second rank and so on. Top Keywords Banker Charnes Cooper (BCC), Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Making Units (DMU), Variable Returns to Scale (VRS). Top |