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Empirical Analysis of Agricultural Productivity: Growth in Benin and Mainly Factors which Influence Growth
Constant, Labintan Adeniyi - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
This study examined changes in agricultural productivity at Benin in the context of diverse institutional arrangements … information was for a 43-year period (1961-2003); DEA method was used to measure Malquist index of total factor productivity to … TFP measures revealed whether the performance of factors productivity is due to technological change or technical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853458
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Energy use reduction and input productivity growth in Australian industries
Syed, Arif - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
between capital use and energy productivity in many industries indicates that energy use efficiency may be augmented by … productivity, input use productivity, the influence of capital on energy productivity, and energy-saving and energy-using bias … revealed widely different energy productivity growth rates in different industries studied. Such results suggest a need to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853456
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909064
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Economic and Marketing Efficiency Among Corn Ethanol Plants
Sesmero, Juan P.; Perrik, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
In the corn ethanol industry, the ability of plants to obtain favorable prices through marketing decisions is considered important for their overall economic performance. Based on a panel of surveyed of ethanol plants we extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861926
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Economic and Marketing Efficiency Among Corn Ethanol Plants
Sesmero, Juan P.; Perrin, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
We extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of a sample of ethanol plants into internal (technical and allocative) and boundary (marketing) sources. This decomposition allows us to evaluate the channels through which different plant characteristics affect plant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853496
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An Analysis of the Technical Efficiency of Cotton Farmers in the Punjab province in Pakistan
Hussain, Muhammad Sajid; Coelli, Tim J.; Simmons, Phil - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1999
productivity gains for the farms in the sample through better use of available resources. Results indicate that the incidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878602
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Production Efficiency and Technology Gap in Irrigated and Rain-fed Rice Farming Systems in Sri Lanka: Non Parametric Approach
Thibbotuwawa, Manoj; Mugera, Amin; White, Ben - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013
The paper analyses the differences of technical, allocative, cost and scale efficiencies of irrigated and rain-fed rice farmers in Sri Lanka in two different perspectives; first, relative to a common metafrontier, defined as the boundary of an unrestricted technology set and second relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882118
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Technical Efficiency of Australian Wool Production: Point and Confidence Interval Estimates
Fraser, Iain; Horrace, William C. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2002
A balanced panel of data is used to estimate technical efficiency, employing a fixed-effects stochastic frontier specification for wool producers in Australia. Both point estimates and confidence intervals for technical efficiency are reported. The confidence intervals are constructed using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909043
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RETHINKING THE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF SMALL SCALE YAM FARMERS IN NIGERIA USING CONVENTIONAL AND NON-CONVENTIONAL INEFFICIENCY PARAMETERS
Nmadu, Job N.; Simpa, James O. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2014
The study investigated whether socio-cultural factors accentuate technical efficiency of yam farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria in addition to the socio-economic normally postulated. Primary data collected from 180 yam farmers randomly selected from three local government areas, one from each of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010914418
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A Non-Parametric Analysis of Rice Production Efficiency in Sri Lanka
Thibbotuwawa, Manoj; Mugera, Amin W.; White, Benedict - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
This article investigates the production efficiency of rice farming in Sri Lanka using cross section survey data of 90 farms. Past studies on rice farming have mostly focused on technical efficiency (TE). Here, we examine technical efficiency, allocative efficiency (AE) and cost efficiency (CE)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915503