Economic Efficiency Analysis on Flower Industry in Taiwan
HE Shen
SHI Zheng-ping
Abstract：As the scientific and technological progress and the development of international trade,the development of Taiwan’s flower industry has entered a new era. How to seize the opportunity to accelerate the development of flower industry has become a new topic faced by Taiwan’s flower industry. In this study,the methods of data envel-opment analysis (DEA)and Malmquist productivity index were used to analyze the economic efficiency and effective-ness of Taiwan’s flower industry. The change and development of economic efficiency of flower production in Tai-wan in several years were illustrated from a longitudinal study,and the differences of production and marketing com-bined efficiency among different regions in Taiwan were analyzed from cross-sectional study. Based on these results, the policy suggestions which would promote the sound development of flower industry in Taiwan were put forward.
Keywords：flower industryproduction efficiencydata envelopment analysis
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Pages：8( 6-13 )