RiceFarms {plm} | R Documentation

## Production of Rice in India

### Description

a panel of 171 observations

number of observations : 1026

observation : farms

country : Indonesia

### Usage

    data(RiceFarms)

### Format

A dataframe containing :

id

  the farm identifier

size

  the total area cultivated with rice, measured in hectares

status

  land status, on of `'owner'` (non sharecroppers, owner operators or leasholders or both), `'share'` (sharecroppers), `'mixed'` (mixed of the two previous status)

varieties

  one of `'trad'` (traditional varieties), `'high'` (high yielding varieties) and `'mixed'` (mixed varieties)

bimas

  bIMAS is an intensification program ; one of `'no'` (non-bimas famer), `'yes'` (bimas farmer) or `'mixed'` (part but not all of farmer's land was registered to be in the bimas program)

seed

  seed in kilogram

urea

  urea in kilogram

phosphate

  phosphate in kilogram

pesticide

  pesticide cost in Rupiah

pseed

  price of seed in Rupiah per kg

purea

  price of urea in Rupiah per kg

pphosph

  price of phosphate in Rupiah per kg

hiredlabor

  hired labor in hours

famlabor

  family labor in hours

totlabor

  total labor (excluding harvest labor)

wage

  labor wage in Rupiah per hour

goutput

  gross output of rice in kg

noutput

  net output, gross output minus harvesting cost (paid in terms of rice)

price

  price of rough rice in Rupiah per kg

region

  one of `'wargabinangun'`, `'langan'`, `'gunungwangi'`, `'malausma'`, `'sukaambit'`, `'ciwangi'`

### Source

Qu Feng and William C. Horrace, (2012) “Alternative Measures of Technical Efficiency: Skew, Bias and Scale”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27(2), pp. 253–268.

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