Identifying factors influencing the forestry production efficiency in Northwest China

摘要

Highlights?The forestry production efficiency of 6 provinces in Northwest China has been measured.?The decreasing forestry production efficiency is not synchronized with the rapid social economy.?The spatiotemporal analysis shows the uneven development of forestry production.?The regression analysis demonstrates the role of six influencing factors to forestry production efficiency.AbstractForestry industry has realized a rapid development in China due to the domestic and international demand for forestry products. Considering the conservation of forest ecology, China has strived to improve the forestry production efficiency. Currently, the northwestern regions have been trying to recover the ecology and make economic growth through forestry development. This research has assessed the forestry production efficiency in the six provinces in Northwest China. The stochastic frontier analysis was used to c