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 5 Differences in meta-TE and MTR for radial and input use efficiencies: organic versus conventional farms.

	Kolmogorov-Smirnov test	Mann-Whitney test	Simar-Zelenyuk adopted Li test
	KS-statistics	Z- statistics	Li -statistics
TE with respect to metafrontier
Radial efficiency	0.259***	− 3.582***	3.362***
	(0.001)	(0.000)	(0.003)
Input use efficiency
Labor	0.408***	− 6.762***	10.951***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Paid cost	0.332***	− 5.089***	7.233***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Tree	0.242**	− 2.721***	0.864
	(0.012)	(0.006)	(0.235)
MTR
Radial efficiency	0.756***	− 10.697***	1.248*
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.065)
Input use efficiency
Labor	0.667***	− 7.417***	24.813***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Paid cost	0.810***	− 10.792***	31.897***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Tree	0.669***	− 9.401***	4.497***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)