tdent:.ii£ip~ti()Il of Faet.o.rs which lnflqenpelhe technical Ine££i¢.;iel1c.yof' Ind;lan 'Farmers by t.J. CQellla.nd G.£.Batt.ese Departme,n,totEconometric$ Un1vefsityof New England Abstract The technical inefficiency of Indian farmers is investIgated u;sing stochas,tlc frontier production functions. ra,rl'n-leveipanel data (rom the International Cro~s Research lnst.! tute for the Semi-Arid Tropics fICR!SAT) are used. or particu.lar interest to this study iathe :ldentl.ficatioo of those

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... s whIch may cause farms to have large or small technical inefficiency effects. Factors~ such as farmer age t level of educatioh anq farm size are lnvest1,gated. A stochastic frontlet production function is specified in which these factors are p.ermitted to have asystem.atic influence upon tecbnical ineffi.ciency effect~;. tbis approach differ's from t.he usua1 pra.ctlce of pred.icting farm.,..level inefficiency effects, and then regressing these upon various factors In. a second stage of modelling. This latter, two-stage method is not. considered because of cartalnstatistlca:i inconsi.stencies. the results ind1cate that t.he above factors do have a significant influence upon the t.E:l,chnlcal ineft lclency effects of farm.ers in. two of the three vi 11ages considered.