Nowadays the awareness of environmental and health issues related to food consumption has increased in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This results in the augmentation of quality and chemical-free food products. Fresh organic vegetables thus are the one popular choice for Chiang Mai consumers. The...

Efficient savings groups are envisioned to help in improving production capability and livelihoods of the local communities. The present study, thus, has the purposes to evaluate the operational efficiency of savings groups and identity determinants of performance efficiencies of 100 samples of...

The objectives of this paper are to evaluate production efficiency of farmer households and to analyze factors affecting production efficiency of farmer households being saving group members in upper northern areas. The data are collected from 399 farmer households in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai...

By employing the Malmquist productivity index, Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) and super-efficiency DEA, this study attempts to analyze the total factor productivity change, find out the optimal size of business and some policy implications are suggested in order to improve efficiency of...