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distribution among the households, and for the concentration of land to households with higher efficiency. With a land rental … market in a dynamic economic development process, improvements in overall production efficiency of the households, however …
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The economic analysis of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) vis-à-vis conventional method of rice cultivation was assessed in Bardhaman district of West Bengal during 2009-10. The cost-returns analysis of SRI method revealed that the cost of raising nursery for one ha main field...
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productivity and efficiency levels in maize production in CA and conventional farming. The analysis is based on a three year panel … technical efficiency between CA and conventional farming. Study results indicate that CA technology is implemented in relatively …. Technical efficiency levels are generally the same (about 68%) for both technologies. Two-thirds of farmers achieve efficiency …
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In the paper, we analyze two issues that are important in the U.S. peanut markets: the absence of explicit quality premiums in the crop contracts, and the thinness of the postharvest cash/spot markets, which obstructs the operation of current production support policies. We argue that...
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farmers allows innate efficiency differences, due to factors such as farm size, to be separated from the effects of the new … showed negative benefits in 1998-99, which conflicts with continued adoption, but stochastic efficiency frontier estimation …, which takes account of the labor saved, showed that adopters averaged 88% efficiency, as compared with 66% for the non …
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This paper investigates the roles of industrial cluster on the efficiency of rice milling and the improvement of milled … innovation increases milling efficiency and improves 1 milling quality. Moreover, it is found from the estimation of price …
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This research aims at shedding empirical light on the relative efficiency of small-scale maize producers in Romania … estimated due to the imposition of curvature correctness and the effects on the individual efficiency estimates are shown. The … empirical results show a relative high technical efficiency of the small-scale farmers but relatively poor scores on systematic …
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the impact of reallocating water among the production sectors, on the basis of economic efficiency, on output growth … is reduced to 30%, while intra-sectoral water reallocation on the basis of efficiency is currently viewed as the most …
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of scale in Kenyan dairy in terms of relative profit efficiency at different levels of output, and identify policy and … significant effect on efficiency, confirming the relative competitiveness of small-scale dairy producers. Dairy farmers with … commercial poultry achieved higher relative profit efficiency as poultry waste was fed to cattle. Rural location relative to …
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ometrically. The estimates obtained show a relevant increase in the efficiency component for the period under study and a …
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