About Lesson
- Farm efficiency measures acts as a “measuring stick” i.e. needed to provide and standards for accurate decision making regarding the use of resources.
- One method of production is said to be more efficient than the other when it yields a greater valuable output per unit of a valuable input.
- Efficiency can be related to:
- Operation of farm business as a whole
- Any individual place of the business the line of production or enterprise (crop production, livestock and poultry production etc)
- The use of various factors of production or resources (land, labor and capital)
- To any single input (fertilizer, machines, feed, etc)
- Various efficiency measures therefore need to be developed to express technical efficiency in various farms enterprises to relate this to financial success.
- Farm efficiency measures are classified into two broad categories-physical and financial efficiency measures.