• Narumbam Achouba
• Moirangthem Dabayenti Devi

Abstract The productivity of rice would depend on various factors, viz. fertility of the land, rice variety, methods of cultivation, applications of chemicals and fertilizers, level of farm mechanization, irrigation facilities, rainfall, etc. A relationship between production and inputs used is developed in this study at the farm level by using cross section data of 160 farmers in the state from Bishnupur and Thoubal districts of Manipur based on the Field Survey data collected during 2016. A farm specific production model is used to examine the relationship between the actual and potential production of rice in these districts. Translog Production Function model is selected for the farm specific production function. Stochastic Frontier Production Function is derived, and estimated the potential levels of yield of rice for the farmers included in the observation. The estimated potential levels of yield lying along the frontier function were compared with the actual production levels. The stochastic frontier production function is also used for the estimation of Technical Efficiencies. Majority of the farmers in the sample survey were operating at a moderately high level of Technical Efficiency, i.e. 53(33.12%) and 43 (26.88%) out of the 160 farmers are operating at an efficiency class of (0.7, 0.75) and (0.75, 0.8) respectively. Yield gap was highest in the case of villages in Bishnupur district at an average of 1096 kg per hectare. The average yield gap for the villages in Thoubal district was found at 995 kg per hectare. The maximum yield gap in the survey of 160 farmers was found at 1572 kg per hectare. The overall yield gap stood at around 1045 kg per hectare.

Keywords: Stochastic Frontier Production Function, Translog production function, Technical Efficiency, yield gap.

"Yield Gap and T.E. in Rice Production: A Comparative Study of Two Districts in Manipur", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.c32-c38, September-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109204.pdf

"Yield Gap and T.E. in Rice Production: A Comparative Study of Two Districts in Manipur", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no. ppc32-c38, September-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109204.pdf