Determinants of technical efficiency of rice farms in Kien Giang province, Vietnam

The aim of this study is to determine technical efficiency and determinants of technical efficiency of rice farms in Kien Giang, Vietnam, based on a cross-sectional data collected in 2015 from 302 rice farmers in Kien Giang province. The Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function, incorporating inefficiency effects was employed to analyze the data, using the FRONTIER 4.1.