TITLE:
Analysis of the Rice Value Chain in Bobonaro Municipality, Tmor-Leste
AUTHORS:
Cristóvão Reis, Longuinhos Santos, Rui Cruz
KEYWORDS:
Rice, Value Chain, Bobonaro, Timor-Leste
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.11 No.1,
December
29,
2022
ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to
analyse the rice value chain in Bobonaro, Timor-Leste, from the producer’s point of view, for this purpose, the Data
Envelopment + Analysis (DEA), Tobit
and Regression. The sample consisted of 200
rice producers in one municipality, namely Bobonaro. The results showed
that the production scale presented increasing returns in about 96%. Only 3% of
the sample surveyed showed an efficient scale and about 1% presented a
production scale with decreasing returns. The results of multiple linear
regression analyses show that the model has a degree of adjustment of 10.6%,
and the model is statistically significant. The estimated coefficients are
statistically significant for Land, Seeds, Capital and IR8 Variety. There are
many factors that influence the decision-making of producers when selling their
rice products. Rice distribution chains operate through various channels,
including traders, companies, wholesalers, retailers and agents.