Can Cooperative Behavior Improve Farmers'Technical Efficiency?:Based on the survey and analysis of whiteleg shrimp farmers
Based on the micro-survey data of 245 Whiteleg shrimp farmers in Shandong Province and Jiangsu Province,the technical efficiency of farmers was quantitatively measured by random frontier production function.Then the Tobit model was used to analyze the influence of farmers'cooperative behavior on the technical efficiency of Whiteleg shrimp aquaculture.The results showed that farmers'participation in cooperatives,cooperation with leading enterprises and par-ticipation in industry associations has significantly improved the technical efficiency,while en-gaging in order production has no obvious effect on the technical efficiency.In addition,higher levels of education and intensive land production were more conducive to technological efficien-cy.
Production technology efficiencyStochastic frontierFarmer cooperationOrder production