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— The purpose of the study is to analyze the technical efficiency level of paddy farmers in Thiruvarur District of Tamil Nadu, India. A Non-Parametric approach of Data Envelopment Analysis method (DEA) was employed to measure the technical efficiency under Variable returns to Scale (VRS) with output oriented assumption. A primary data for the year 201516 was collected from 300 farmers of Thiruvarur District in Tamil Nadu. The findings shows that the average technical efficiency was 64% which implied that 64% of the farmer in the study area had realized their technical abilities. The estimated technical efficiency range varied from 14% to 100% and also 13 farmers were technically efficient. Average potential to increase the paddy production was 83% by following the best-practices of efficient farms. Tobit regression model was applied in this study to examine the socio-economic factors influences technical efficiency. The result shows that age of the farmer, sex and marital status had positive relationship to the technical efficiency.

A Non-parametric Approach to estimate the technical efficiency of paddy farmers in southern region of Tamil Nadu, India