producers' characteristics. With data gathered by survey, 229 farms in the Sinaloa valley,
Mexico are used to estimate a stochastic frontier model in 2016. The main finding of this
work is that membership in a farmers' association has a positive effect on efficiency. There is
also a positive relationship between efficiency and formal education, age, land ownership,
and soil analysis. The prevailing level of efficiency among maize producers is 0.84, implying …