Estimating Technical Efficiency Of Rice In Selected Provinces of Iran

Rice is regarded as one of the consumed corns of the human being and the white rice among the corns is a product which has been planted for the man kind exclusively. Just now, Iran is considered as one of the most important importers of this product all over the world. Through this study and using the political tools and the appropriate administrative approaches, we able to streng efficiency of the rice planters and reduce the technical inefficiency to produce the rice so that the local farmers secure a part of the internal demands in this way. On the basis of the data of the agricultural year of 2003-2004 for the different varieties of the rice, the current research has taken an action to estimate the efficiency in the five selected provinces of the Gilan, Mazandaran, Golestan, Khouzestan and fars. The results indicate that the technical efficiency(VRS) to plant this product is relatively high and its average is 87%. The production of the varieties of the rice has possessed the identical technical efficiency in three provinces of Khouzestan, Gilan and Kazandaran.Technical efficiency of the rice is different in the provinces of the Fars and Golestan.