كارآيي استفاده از نهاده ها در توليد خرماي شهرستان بم و جيرفت

Input use efficiency in dates producing in Bam and Jiroft

To evaluate date producion efficiency of producers in the cities of Barn and Jiroft, frontier software was applied. For collection of data 190 date producers were interviewed. Different types of efficiencies were calculated. Results indicated that, on the average, an increase in plantation area (land use) would lead to higher- technical and economic efficiencies. However, the highest allocation efficiency belongs to those date producers who had one to three hectare of land, specifically 62 percent. Producers with less than one hectare had an allocation efficiency of 57 percent. Date Producers who had more than three hectares of land had an efficiency of 52.2 percent. Furthermore optimum application of inputs was investigated. The study showed that date farmers, in general, were faced with shortage of capital but were using other inputs more than they needed.