This paper aims to estimate technical and scale efficiency in the Italian citrus farming. Estimation was carried out … Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model, respectively. Several studies have compared technical efficiency estimates derived from … parametric and non parametric approaches, while a very small number of studies have aimed to compare scale efficiency obtained …

inefficiency effects. Sufficient evidence of positive relationship between wheat productivity and higher and balanced use of … fertiliser nutrients was present. The productivity showed an inverse relationship with the proportionate farm area allocated to … efficiency at wheat farms was about 68 percent. An inverse relationship was observed between technical efficiency and farm size …

This study describes the technical efficiency of sugarcane production and the factors affecting this efficiency. The … compared the level of technical efficiency of outgrower and non-outgrower farmers, and examined the relationship between levels … of efficiency and various specific factors. A cross sectional single-visit survey that included randomly selected …

This paper, seeks to evaluate the technical efficiency of cotton farms in the northern part of Cameroon through the use … fact that cotton yields in Cameroon are amongst the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, efficiency indexes are still as low as … 60% in average. Having had a diagnosis overview aimed at identifying the determinant of technical efficiency with the use …

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the determinants of technical efficiency of wheat small farmers in Bío Bío … technical efficiency. Using information of the VII Agricultural and Forestry Survey, a stochastic frontier production function …, technology and agro-climatic zones are able to explain individual technical efficiency levels. Special importance receives …

technical efficiency of 233 smallholder maize farmers in Tanzania and provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of … inefficiency with the aim of finding way to increase smallholders’ maize production and productivity. Results shows that … smallholder productivity is very low and highly variable, ranging form 0.01t/ha to 6.77t/ha, averaging 1.19t/ha. Technical …

This article aims at evaluating and analysing the production efficiency of farms (FF) in the locality of Zoetele, South … scale, then a censored TOBIT model enabling therefore to identify factors of efficiency. Two main outcomes result from this … study. First of all, we can see that on average, the level of technical efficiency of FFs is 44.60% when returns to scale …

analyse the effect of these on the estimation of spatial dependence. Estimation is conducted using a Bayesian approach and …

This paper redefines technical efficiency by incorporating provision of environmental goods as one of the outputs of … the provision of environmental goods. The multi-output distance function approach is used to estimate technical efficiency …. A Bayesian procedure involving the use of a Gibbs sampler is used to estimate the farm specific efficiency as well as …

agriculture efficiency in Uganda. For this purpose, the analysis performed on the data of Uganda National Panel Survey (UNPS) from … accroitre l’efficacité de l’agriculture en Ouganda. A cet effet, des analyses effectuées sur les données d’Uganda National Panel … 2011/2012 has permitted to elaborate a map of the level of efficiency of agricultural production and land and labor inputs …