Search Results - subject:"Farm efficiency"

Sustainability of Indian Agriculture: Towards an Assessment

Rao, V.M. - eSocialSciences - 2007

This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The framework is based on trends, indicators and assessment by experts spanning three domains which are the principal influences shaping the growth, efficiency and stability of...

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Rainfall and Farm Efficiency Measurement for Broadacre Agriculture in South-Western Australia

Henderson, Benjamin B.; Kingwell, Ross S. - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 13 (2005)

Few studies of farm technical efficiency consider differences in the physical environments of the farms. This study examines rain-fed broadacre agriculture and shows how neglect of rainfall differences between farms affects measures of farm technical efficiency (TE). Applying data envelopment...

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The Impacts of Farm Financial Structure on Production Efficiency

Lambert, David K.; Bayda, Volodymyr V. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 37 (2005) 01

Farm financial structure may affect both short- and long-run input usage, thereby affecting farm efficiency. Any …

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Political Violence and Farm Household Efficiency in Colombia

Gonzalez, Maria A.; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

This paper estimates farm household levels of technical efficiency and their determinants in Colombia, with particular reference to political violence (i.e., guerilla fronts, assassinations, kidnappings, and displaced population). An input-oriented stochastic frontier is estimated simultaneously...

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Realizing the potential of tidal currents and the efficiency of turbine farms in a channel

Vennell, Ross - In: Renewable Energy 47 (2012) C, pp. 95-102

reduction. Farm efficiency increases as optimally tuned turbines are added to its cross-section, while output per turbine … increases in tidal straits and decreases in shallow channels. Adding rows of optimally tuned turbines also increases farm … efficiency, but with a diminishing return on additional rows. The diminishing return and flow reduction are strongly influenced …

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Experimental investigation of wake effects on wind turbine performance

Adaramola, M.S.; Krogstad, P.-Å. - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 8, pp. 2078-2086

The wake interference effect on the performance of a downstream wind turbine was investigated experimentally. Two similar model turbines with the same rotor diameter were used. The effects on the performance of the downstream turbine of the distance of separation between the turbines and the...

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Property Rights, Labour Markets, and Efficiency in a Transition Economy: The Case of Rural China

Brandt, Loren; Benjamin, Dwayne - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

This paper investigates the consequences of imperfect and uneven factor market development for farm efficiency in rural …

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An Investigation of the Technical and Allocative Efficiency of Broadacre Farmers

Henderson, Benjamin B.; Kingwell, Ross S. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2001

The technical and allocative efficiency of broadacre farmers in a southern region of Western Australia is investigated over a three-year period. Applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) reveals there is some inefficiency in each year, which decreases over...

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Measuring and explaining farm inefficiency in a panel data set of mixed farms

Puig, Jaume; Argilés, Josep M. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

This paper aims to estimate a translog stochastic frontier production function in the analysis of a panel of 150 mixed Catalan farms in the period 1989-1993, in order to attempt to measure and explain variation in technical inefficiency scores with a one-stage approach. The model uses gross...

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