PROSPECTS OF TRIVENI CUSTOM

This study contributes to an understanding of the technical efficiency and ranking of twelve district agriculture cooperative marketing societies in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.The analysis of technical efficiency-ratio of weighted outputs to weighted inputsis based on the primary data collected from the district cooperative marketing societies (DCMS) for the period 2018-19 to 2022-23.This paper identifies three inputs (fixed assets, total expenditures, and own fund) and two outputs (total turnover and investments) to evaluate the efficiency levels of district cooperating marketing societies.The technical efficiency estimates derived from the super efficiency SBM model of Tone (2002) are found to be lower than those obtained from super efficiency model of Anderson-Peterson (1994), resulting in alterations to the ranking of cooperative marketing societies.The larger efficiency estimates under the Anderson-Peterson model are attributed to the significant amount of input and output slacks, resulting from the assumption of the radial direction of the model.The efficiency estimates under SBM model is found to be more robust.SBM super efficiency estimates showed Gunter DCMS, West Godavari DCMS, and East Godavari DCMS as the top-performing district cooperative marketing societies.Their high efficiency ranking is due to diverse business operations, dependence on own funds, safe investments in financial instruments, effective control in management costs and consistent profits earnings.