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Technical Efficiency of the Hatchery Operators in Fish Seed Production Farms in Bangladesh

M. A. Islam
Scientific Officer
Scientific Officer, Agricultural Economics Division, BRRI, Gazipur-1701;

R. K. Talukder
Professor
Professor,Department of Agricultural Economics;

M. A. Khan
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Finance, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This study is concerned with the estimation of technical efficiency of the hatchery operators producing fish seed Using 56 samples comprising 15 from Jessore, 10 from Chandpur, 16 from Bogra, and 15 from Mymensingh districts, the study has used frontier 4.1 Package to estimate the technical efficiency of the hatchery operators. A Cobb-Douglas type production function with nine quantitative variables namely. pond area, human labour, feed, fertilizer, number of brood fish, number of times brood used in a year, fuel electricity and hormone dose given to female brood and a dummy for stochastic frontier and a linear technical inefficiency function with 4 variables: Age, Education, Experience and Training received by the hatchery operator were estimated. Several hypotheses tests were performed using Log-likelihood Ratio Test. The mean technical efficiency of the hatchery operators was 60 percent. Technical efficiency were not found to be skewed towards higher or lower scores. rather concentrated in the 30'h, 40`", 60"' and 90°i percentiles. Hypothesis of existence of inefficiency effect was rejected establishing that significant inefficiency exists. More than one third of the seed production potential remains unutilized. Utilizing the unexploited production potential of the fish seed producers rather than establishing new farms and hatcheries appears to be the pertinent policy. Training of the farm hatchery operators can help achieve the unexploited potential.

Keywords: Techical efficiency,Fish seed,Hatchery operators

Location: Jessore,Chandpur,Bogra,Mymensingh

Start Date: 00-03-2005

End Date: 00-10-2005

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Fish

Objectives:

To provide meaningful insights into the level of technical efficiency of the hatchery operators along with identification of factors affecting efficiency.

Methodology:

A reasonable size of sample which can at least satisfy the objectives set for the study was taken into account. During the research period, a total of 168 private fish seed hatcheries were found in the study areas. For the present study, a set of 56 sample hatcheries were taken into account- It is to be noted that the scope of this research was confined with farms keeping hatcheries with brood ponds. A sample of 56 were randomly selected taking 15 from Jessore, 10 from Chandpur, 16 from Bogra, and 15 from Mymensingh district. A systematic sampling technique was followed in which one out of every three hatcheries was selected as sample. Hatchery operation is such an enterprise that the owners have to be involved for a specific period of the year to produce spawn. Production season for fish seed from March- April and continues till September-October every year. Data used in the present study covered the period from March-April to September-October, 2005. However, the survey for collection of data was conducted during November-December, 2005. Keeping in view the objectives of the study, a preliminary survey schedule was designed for collecting data from the selected hatcheries. The questionnaire was made to accommodate information on inventory of brood fish of the farms, detailed information, such as age and average body weight of the brood fish and their productive life, quantities of inputs used and their costs, cost of tools and equipment, miscellaneous cost, production and return for spawn, and problems faced and suggestions made by the fish seed farmers. Data were collected from primary sources, and it was accomplished by direct interview with the hatchery owners. Analytical Technique Technical efficiency refers to the ability of a firm to produce maximum possible output with a minimum quantity of inputs, using a given set of technology. A technically efficient firm will operate on its frontier production function. Given the relationship of inputs in a particular production function, the firm is technically efficient if it produces on its outer bound production function to obtain the maximum possible output, which is feasible under the current technology.

Source of Information: Bangladesh J. Agric. Econs XXX, 1 (2007) 95-108

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Achievement/Findings:

The mean technical efficiency of the hatchery operators was 60 percent. Technical efficiency were not found to be skewed towards higher or lower scores. rather concentrated in the 30'h, 40`", 60"' and 90°i percentiles. Hypothesis of existence of inefficiency effect was rejected establishing that significant inefficiency exists. More than one third of the seed production potential remains unutilized. Utilizing the unexploited production potential of the fish seed producers rather than establishing new farms and hatcheries appears to be the pertinent policy. Training of the farm hatchery operators can help achieve the unexploited potential.

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