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Abstract
The risk arises from inadequate knowledge about best practice techniques
(technical risk) and markets/prices (allocative risk). On the basis of this
assumption, the economic inefficiency has been decomposed into
inefficiencies due to technical and allocative risks. The study, conducted
during 2004-05, is based on the primary cross-sectional data collected
from six villages from three rural development blocks of South Tripura
district in the Tripura state of India, with 239 farms as the sample. More
than 96 per cent of the difference between observed and frontier output
has been found primarily due to factors which are under the control of
farms, i.e. due to technical inefficiencies. The mean economic efficiency
under risk has been estimated at the level of 34.11 per cent. The economic
inefficiency due to technical risk and allocative risk has been found as
20.86 and 45.03 per cent, respectively of the existing economic inefficiency.
The variations in EEar (allocative risks) have been found lower than those
in EEtr (technical risks). A negative correlation has been observed between
EEtr and EEar. The amount of EEtr has been found to be lower than that of
EEar.