Abstract: This survey was conducted to assess the profitability and resource use efficiency of coffee production in Palpa district in 2013. The survey was conducted in Barangdi, Boughapokharathok, Madanpokhara and Khaseauli. A house holds survey of 110 coffee growers which includes 30 households each from first three VDCs and 20 from Khaseauli. Face to face interview, direct observation, FGD was conducted to collect primary data and other sources for secondary data collection and was analyzed by using SPSS and Microsoft Excel. Cobb-Douglas production function analysis was done and return to scale and resource use efficiency was estimated. Cobb-Douglas production function analysis showed that labour cost, expenses on organic manures and fertilizers and other associate costs contributed significantly to gross income of coffee at 1 % level of significance. The return to scale was found 1.09 and the resources used in the coffee production were all underutilized and should adjust the labour by 42.51% , manure and fertilizers by 66.15% and other costs by 71.39%. It shows that the resources used in coffee production were underutilized.
Keywords: Coffee, Cobb-Douglas Production function, Resource use efficiency.
Title: RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY OF COFFEE PRODUCTION IN PALPA DISTRICT, NEPAL
Author: Bibek Acharya, Shiva Chandra Dhakal, Dinesh Dhakal, Shyam Sundar Pant
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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