The agricultural production efficiency change of 281 counties in the Loess Plateau was analyzed over
1987 to 2014 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA),taking the cultivated area,sown area of grain,rural em-
ployees,total power of agricultural machinery,and the amount of agricultural chemical fertilizers as input indexes,
gross agricultural product,grain and oil output as output indexes. The results suggest that: (1) The average value
of comprehensive efficiency was 0. 694,which is on medium level,and keeps a moderate rate of growth,but the
regional difference is larger. The coefficient of variation of high value (V >0. 250) located in some counties in the
northern and eastern parts of the Loess Plateau. (2) The variation of pure technical efficiency was divided into
three basic types according to the calculation. The number of counties with high value due to pure technical effi-
ciency increased,and there are more such kind of counties from the south to the north. Comprehensive efficiency
affected by both pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency,and pure technical efficiency has more contributed to
the comprehensive efficiency than the scale efficiency. (3) The scale efficiency value was greater than 0. 9 in the
entire area with a high scale efficiency and the better balance in distribution. Most counties were in the stage with
increasing scale returns in the Loess Plateau in 2005 to 2014,and it is still possible to get higher production effi-
ciency by expanding the scale of agricultural production.
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