การวิเคราะห์ประสิทธิภาพ การผลิตสุรากลั่นชุมชนเขตภาคเหนือ

Abstract

The producers of community distilled liquors in Thailand are mostly concentrated in the north relative to other regions, although the producers are decreasing in number. This happens due to their lack of efficiency in production. From the estimation, the coefficient of the variable representing the liquor producers’ production efficiency in the north is 0.1573027, suggesting that the current level of community distilled liquor production accounts for only 15.73 percent of the efficient level of production. The decline in production efficiency is found when the producers have higher age, when the production of community liquors is treated as their primary occupation, and when the production is capital-intensive. However, the improved efficiency in production can be observed when the producers are male, when they depend upon agriculture as their primary occupation and liquor production as the supplementary one, when they attend the training of liquor production, when gas is used as energy source in production, and when the distilled liquors are sold illegally without paying taxes.