Evaluation of technical efficiency of some rain-fed cereal and legume crops production in Syria: does crisis matter?

AlFraj, Naji; Hamo, Alaa

doi:10.1186/s40066-022-00389-y

Agriculture & Food Security

Table 1 Technical efficiency of some rain-fed cereal and legume crops production in Syria between 2003 and 2018

From: Evaluation of technical efficiency of some rain-fed cereal and legume crops production in Syria: does crisis matter?

Crisis	Year	Soft wheat				Durum wheat				Barley				Lentils				Chick peas
Crisis	Year	TE^CRS	TE^VRS	SE	RTS	TE^CRS	TE^VRS	SE	RTS	TE^CRS	TE^VRS	SE	RTS	TE^CRS	TE^VRS	SE	RTS	TE^CRS	TE^VRS	SE	RTS
Pre-crisis	2003	1.000	1.000	1.000	–	0.925	0.957	0.967	irs	0.976	0.999	0.977	irs	0.875	0.963	0.909	irs	1.000	1.000	1.000	–
	2004	0.939	0.957	0.981	irs	0.985	1.000	0.985	irs	0.844	0.930	0.908	irs	1.000	1.000	1.000	–	0.940	0.943	0.997	irs
	2005	0.967	1.000	0.967	irs	0.957	0.977	0.979	irs	0.979	1.000	0.979	irs	1.000	1.000	1.000	–	1.000	1.000	1.000	–
	2006	0.788	1.000	0.788	irs	1.000	1.000	1.000	–	0.845	1.000	0.845	irs	0.966	1.000	0.966	irs	0.960	1.000	0.960	irs
	2007	0.582	0.977	0.596	irs	0.967	0.970	0.997	irs	0.799	0.913	0.875	irs	0.724	0.998	0.725	irs	0.884	1.000	0.884	irs
	2008	0.583	0.979	0.596	irs	0.906	0.912	0.994	irs	0.803	0.918	0.875	irs	0.725	1.000	0.725	irs	0.884	1.000	0.884	irs
	2009	0.596	0.865	0.689	irs	0.757	0.865	0.875	irs	0.599	0.881	0.679	irs	0.466	0.479	0.972	drs	0.520	0.632	0.823	irs
	2010	0.424	0.548	0.774	irs	0.562	0.589	0.953	irs	0.622	0.737	0.845	irs	0.566	1.000	0.566	drs	0.590	0.619	0.954	irs
	Mean	0.734	0.915	0.799	–	0.882	0.909	0.969	–	0.808	0.922	0.873	–	0.790	0.930	0.858	–	0.847	0.899	0.938	–
	SD	0.217	0.155	0.168	–	0.150	0.137	0.041	–	0.141	0.088	0.094	–	0.204	0.183	0.164	–	0.187	0.170	0.067	–
Post-crisis	2011	0.405	0.569	0.712	irs	0.570	0.597	0.954	irs	0.595	0.736	0.809	irs	0.589	0.610	0.965	drs	0.540	0.649	0.832	irs
	2012	0.435	0.549	0.792	irs	0.544	0.578	0.942	irs	0.493	0.639	0.772	irs	0.579	0.667	0.868	drs	0.528	0.572	0.923	irs
	2013	0.263	0.382	0.688	irs	0.348	0.378	0.920	irs	0.453	1.000	0.453	drs	0.512	0.528	0.970	drs	0.307	0.344	0.891	irs
	2014	0.212	0.296	0.716	irs	0.263	0.297	0.885	irs	0.346	0.476	0.727	drs	0.270	0.271	0.998	drs	0.249	0.288	0.866	irs
	2015	0.184	0.213	0.864	irs	0.227	0.240	0.948	irs	0.313	0.402	0.778	drs	0.255	0.276	0.925	drs	0.211	0.222	0.949	irs
	2016	0.101	0.156	0.647	irs	0.160	0.190	0.843	irs	0.229	0.509	0.451	drs	0.197	0.206	0.956	irs	0.161	0.187	0.862	irs
	2017	0.075	0.102	0.735	irs	0.102	0.131	0.777	irs	0.116	0.177	0.657	drs	0.099	0.101	0.989	irs	0.091	0.101	0.905	irs
	2018	0.056	0.075	0.747	irs	0.075	0.096	0.777	irs	0.089	0.130	0.688	drs	0.071	0.075	0.942	irs	0.058	0.065	0.891	irs
	Mean	0.216	0.293	0.738	–	0.286	0.313	0.881	–	0.329	0.509	0.667	–	0.322	0.342	0.952	–	0.268	0.304	0.890	–
	SD	0.144	0.192	0.066	–	0.189	0.191	0.074	–	0.180	0.287	0.141	–	0.210	0.230	0.041	–	0.183	0.211	0.037	–

TE^CRS: Constant returns to scale technical efficiency, TE^VRS: Variable returns to scale technical efficiency, SE: Scale Efficiency, irs: increasing returns to scale, drs: decreasing returns to scale, RTS: Type of returns to scale
Source: Own elaboration

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