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RiceFarms: Production of Rice in India

Description

a panel of 171 observations

number of observations : 1026

observation : farms

country : Indonesia

Usage

data(RiceFarms)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
id
the farm identifier
size
the total area cultivated with rice, measured in hectares
status
land status, on of 'owner' (non sharecroppers, owner operators or leasholders or both), 'share' (sharecroppers), 'mixed' (mixed of the two previous status)
varieties
one of 'trad' (traditional varieties), 'high' (high yielding varieties) and 'mixed' (mixed varieties)
bimas
bIMAS is an intensification program ; one of 'no' (non-bimas famer), 'yes' (bimas farmer) or 'mixed' (part but not all of farmer's land was registered to be in the bimas program)
seed
seed in kilogram
urea
urea in kilogram
phosphate
phosphate in kilogram
pesticide
pesticide cost in Rupiah
pseed
price of seed in Rupiah per kg
purea
price of urea in Rupiah per kg
pphosph
price of phosphate in Rupiah per kg
hiredlabor
hired labor in hours
famlabor
family labor in hours
totlabor
total labor (excluding harvest labor)
wage
labor wage in Rupiah per hour
goutput
gross output of rice in kg
noutput
net output, gross output minus harvesting cost (paid in terms of rice)
price
price of rough rice in Rupiah per kg
region
one of 'wargabinangun', 'langan', 'gunungwangi', 'malausma', 'sukaambit', 'ciwangi'

Source

Qu Feng and William C. Horrace, (2012) “Alternative Measures of Technical Efficiency: Skew, Bias and Scale”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27(2), pp. 253--268.