Vol. 10, Special Issue 12 (2021)

This study set out to estimate the economic efficiency and also determine socio-economic and farm specific factors that influence economic efficiency in VDSA farms of SAT India.

The study results show that mean economic efficiency scores were ranged between 4.1 and 90%. There is tremendous opportunity to improve economic efficiency among the farmers in that it is possible to increase production by 50% from the current level of technology and input use because average economic efficiency score near 50 per cent in all the states. It also explains further, that 13.95% of the farmers have efficiency scores that are less than 20% and 51.74% of the farmers have technical scores above 50% with only 9.69% having economic efficiency scores above 80%.Farmers who are older, use hybrid seed, accessed credit and have livestock ownership exhibit higher efficiency scores.