Search Results - subject:"maize farming"

Technical efficiency, technical change and return to scale of rice, maize and agricultural production in Vietnam

Tran, Duc Tri - 2020

The rapid growth of human population has impacted on global food security, development and health. Therefore, efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals of reducing poverty and hunger needs to particularly focus on the critical linkages between agriculture, nutrition, health and...

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The influence of integrated crop management on the household food security of maize farmers in West Java Indonesia

Silitonga, Parlindungan Yulianus; Hartoyo, Sri; Sinaga, … - In: International journal of food and agricultural … 5 (2017) 1, pp. 67-77

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Improved inputs use and productivity in Uganda’s maize sub-sector

Godfrey, Okoboi - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2010

This paper used the Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) data set of 2005/06 to examine the productivity of improved inputs used by smallholder maize farmers in Uganda. Yield and gross profit functions were estimated with the stochastic frontier model. Results revealed a significant effect...

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Economic valuation of maize farming profitability under climate change adaptation in Benin, West Africa

Yegbemey, Rosaine N.; Yabi, Jacob A.; Aïhounton, … - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 10 (2014) 3, pp. 269-280

The major attempt of this paper is to analyse the profitability of maize farming in relation with observed climate … (e.g. prayers, credit, and migration). Maize farming in the study zone was found to be profitable. Yet, the economic …

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Deepening the measurement of technical inefficiency in private farming in Georgia: locally parametric regression

Temel, Tugrul; Lucas, Andre - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2003

This study deepens the measurement of technical inefficiency in private maize farming in Georgia, applying locally … policy directions as to the future of maize farming. The global estimations, revealing non-discriminant overestimation of the …

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Deepening the measurement of technical inefficiency in private farming in Georgia: locally parametric regression

Temel, Tugrul; Lucas, Andre - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2003

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