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Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Maize under Conservation Agriculture in Zimbabwe

Mazvimavi, Kizito; Ndlovu, Patrick V.; An, Henry; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

productivity and efficiency levels in maize production in CA and conventional farming. The analysis is based on a three year panel … sample of smallholder farming households and employing a stochastic production frontier model compare productivity and … technical efficiency between CA and conventional farming. Study results indicate that CA technology is implemented in relatively …

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Productivity and Environmental Performance in Marketing Cooperatives: Incentive Schemes on the Horticultural Sector

Galdeano-Gomez, Emilio; Cespedes-Lorente, Jose; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The object of the present paper is to analyze the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental … marketing cooperatives in the fruit and vegetables sector to consider improvement in productivity and sound environmental … so-called Operative Programs (OP). The present study analyses the total factor productivity (TFP) related to …

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Economic Efficiency of Smallholder Irish Potato Producers in Kenya: A Case of Nyandarua North District

Nyagaka, Daniel; Obare, Gideon A.; Nguyo, Wilson - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …

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MEASUREMENT AND DECOMPOSITION OF FLEXIBILITY OF MULTI-OUTPUT FIRMS

Renner, Swetlana; Glauben, Thomas; Hockmann, Heinrich - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

Flexibility can be considered as a crucial factor of competitive advantage, especially under conditions of dynamically changing environments. Based on the classical microeconomic definition of flexibility, as introduced by Stigler, and some recent concepts developed in the production economics,...

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Is Wal-Mart a Monopsony? Evidence from Local Labor Markets

Bonanno, Alessandro; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

-Mart’s buying power index in labor markets in rural southern and central states is estimated to be 5% or higher while the impact on …

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Specification and estimation of heterogeneous risk preference

Guan, Zhengfei; Wu, Feng - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

In this paper we specify and estimate producers’ risk preference using farm data. We allow heterogeneous risk preference across individuals and propose a specification to model the heterogeneity. We base farmers’ decision making on a utility maximization framework and incorporate both market...

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Land Distributional and Income Effects of the Chinese Land Rental Market

Wu, Ziping - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

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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System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of rice cultivation in West Bengal (India): An Economic analysis

Haldar, Surajit; Honnaiah, T.B.; Govindaraj, Gurrappa Naidu - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

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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Quality Premiums and the Post-Harvest Spot Market Thinness: The Case of U.S. Peanuts

Nadolnyak, Denis A.; Fletcher, Stanley M. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

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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CAN GM-TECHNOLOGIES HELP AFRICAN SMALLHOLDERS? THE IMPACT OF BT COTTON IN THE MAKHATHINI FLATS OF KWAZULU-NATAL

Beyers, Lindie; Thirtle, Colin G. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2003

, which takes account of the labor saved, showed that adopters averaged 88% efficiency, as compared with 66% for the non … 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 …

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