Oil palm production plays a significant role in the economic development of Thailand. Oil palm is now recognized as an important part of the Thai government’s policy on biofuel production as a renewable energy source. Surat Thani, a southern province of Thailand has the largest private sector collaboration for developing plantations for oil palm production. The province has experienced low production yields. This leads to the question: how to improve productivity, increase yields and maintain the quality of oil palm production without expanding land use. Currently, there is a lack of research on improving productivity of the seed industries from the private sector in Thailand. Therefore, this research paper aims to measure technical efficiency (TE) in private sector of oil palm seed production based on the concept of data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. The data was collected in 2017 from 18 private sectors as selected by license under the Plant Act, B.E.1975 and amended. The results will highlight the probably of increasing efficiency levels of oil palm seed production and reveal valuable information on the technical efficiency which will be useful for government, researches, and the private sector.

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