RiceFarmsR Documentation

Production of Rice in India

Description

a panel of 171 observations

number of observations : 1026

observation : farms

country : Indonesia

Usage

data(RiceFarms)

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.