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GlobalGAP compliance costs in Ghana’s small-scale pineapple farming sector
Annor, Prince B.; Kaitibie, Simeon; Lyne, Mike C. - In: Agrekon 63 (2024) 1/2, pp. 82-96
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Effects of inefficiency on marginal costs, degree of economies of scale and technical change : a theoretical relationship
Díaz-Hernández, Juan José; Martínez-Budría, Eduardo; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 29 (2020), pp. 190-207
In this paper, a theoretical relationship is obtained to measure the effect that inefficiency has on marginal costs, degree of economies of scale and technical change. It is shown that when the relationship between inefficiency and output level is ignored, the estimation of marginal costs and...
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Promoting improved agricultural technologies to increase smallholder farm production efficiency : Ghanaian study of cassava farmers
Inkoom, Emmanuel Wisgtos; Dadzie, Samuel Kwesi Ndzebah; … - In: International journal of food and agricultural … 8 (2020) 3, pp. 257-269
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Agrifood system participation and production efficiency among smallholder vegetable farmers in Northern Ghana
Abdul-Rahaman, Awal; Issahaku, Gazali; Ma, Wanglin - In: Agribusiness : an international journal 39 (2023) 3, pp. 812-835
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Fertiliser Subsidy and Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Farmers in Selected Districts in the Transitional and the Guinea Savannah Zones of Ghana
Mustapha, Salisu - 2016
The study examined the impact of Ghana's fertiliser subsidy programme on maize output and technical efficiency among … smallholder farmers in Ghana. Several null hypotheses were tested based on data gathered from a sample of three hundred and fifty …-two (352) farmers drawn from two of Ghana's five agro-ecological zones, the Transition zone and the Guinea savannah zone. Both …
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Sustainable land management practices and technical and environmental efficiency among smallholder farmers in Ghana
Issahaku, Gazali; Abdulai, Awudu - In: Journal of agricultural and applied economics : JAEE 52 (2020) 1, pp. 96-116
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Does contract farming affect technical efficiency? : evidence from soybean farmers in Northern Ghana
Selorm, Ayeduvor; Sarpong, D. B. S.; Egyir, Irene Susana; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-22
farmers in Northern Ghana, we provide empirical evidence that contract farming increases soybean productivity and technical … efficiency in Northern Ghana. We use propensity score matching to reduce bias from observables, and then estimate a stochastic …
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Benchmarking heterogeneous distribution system operators : evidence from Norway
Elias, George - 2016
Regulatory authorities in the European electricity sector use benchmarking techniques to determine the cost-efficient production level for an incentive regulation of distribution system operators (DSOs). With nearly 900 DSOs operating in the German electricity sector, of which 200 subject to...
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The cost efficiency of Cambodian commercial banks : a stochastic frontier analysis
Okuda, Hidenobu; Aiba, Daiju - 2020
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Technical efficiency of onion production : the case of smallholder farmers in Dallo Mena district, Bale zone, Oromia national regional state, Ethiopia
Mulatu, Gemechu; Gemechu, Tassew - In: Cogent business & management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-17
This study was intended to identify factors affecting the technical efficiency of onion production by smallholder farmers in Dallo-Manna district of south eastern Ethiopia using cross-sectional data obtained from 183 randomly selected smallholder farmers. Both descriptive statistics and...
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