. Specifically, it investigates the economic impact of SSNM, focusing on SSNM-induced changes in the yield, profit, nitrogen use and … profit by $150 per hectare. It has no statistically significant effect on the amount of pesticide and nitrogen use of farmers …

exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. The indicators are weighted using Principal Component Analysis. Inter … biophysical indicators of vulnerability (exposure and sensitivity) can thus lead to an erroneous policy implication. Furthermore …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …