the regional levels of technical efficiency. …

Efficiency has been proven to be an important managerial tool in improving total factor productivity in agriculture …. Therefore, to be successful the efficiency improvement program must be flexible enough to accommodate the diversity of farmers … can enhance efficiency in Nepalese rice farming. Other policy implications and development strategies are also drawn from …

insufficient irrigation infrastructure is identified as a major constraint on exploiting such potentials, investment for expanding … and operated tube well based small scale projects in the state have relatively better utilization efficiency. However …. Emergence of the institution of ground water markets, however, is expected to improve utilisation efficiency of irrigation as it …

efficiency over the popular dichotomous choice approach to contingent valuation. This paper reports a split sample test of the … impacts on benefit estimates and efficiency arising from differences in the numbers of divisions on payment cards. Prior … expectations were for increased cell numbers to improve efficiency, but that efficiency gains would eventually be offset because of …

and valuing environmental service flows. We also discuss a number of factors that influence the effectiveness efficiency …

Bangladesh’s industrial trawl fishery. Results show that the efficiency of industrial trawl fishery comes from multiple owner …

Using stochastic frontier analysis, efficiency of production of wheat in Western Australia was studied. The production … rates and year of study. Inefficiency was captured in a second model that incorporated machinery capital investment, opening … to 29% in 2007. Higher machinery investment per hectare and opening equity levels reduced inefficiency, due to producers …

models, or to reduce required sample sizes. C-efficiency recognises the salience of willingness to pay estimates rather than … based on initial responses in order to maximise C-efficiency. The revised design delivered significant improvements. …