Effect of adoption of organic farming on technical efficiency of olive-growing farms: empirical evidence from West Bank of Palestine

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 4 Estimation of input use efficiency for metafrontier and group frontier and metatechnology ratio (MTR).

	Labor		Paid cost		Tree
	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation
Input use efficiency with respect to metafrontier
Organic farm	0.394	0.330	0.238	0.341	0.671	0.210
Conventional farm	0.163	0.202	0.097	0.193	0.590	0.171
Input use efficiency with respect to group frontier
Organic farm	0.419	0.333	0.266	0.356	0.675	0.213
Conventional farm	0.279	0.307	0.218	0.323	0.653	0.196
MTR
Organic farm	0.925	0.115	0.891	0.167	0.995	0.021
Conventional farm	0.658	0.234	0.474	0.201	0.915	0.098