Relative Efficiency Analysis of Biomass Agricultural Plants using Data Envelopment Analysis

Renewable energy has recently been a promising interest as substitute for fossil fuels due to an increasing demand well rising concern over the environmental impact of fuel consumption around globe. Biofuel, in particular, is type renewable energy, which can be derived from various biomass types. In this research, we analyze relative efficiencies using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique three types energy-related plants Northeastern region Thailand, are cassava, sugarcane, and palm. The efficiency each province further analyzed during 2017 2019 comparative study. Next, input criteria collected including allowable planting area, labor cost, rainfall amount; whereas included output criterion quantity harvested product. Our initial analysis CCR, BBC, Scale Efficiency (SE) models DEA provides baseline efficient provinces benchmarked directions improving inefficient provinces, given desired