We investigate the existence of an inverse relationship (IR) between farm size and technical efficiency in Philippine … and suggestions in the literature of inefficient management of fish farms. The analysis of technical efficiency is based …

This paper examines the efficiency and welfare impact of landholdings in rural Vietnam. We utilize panel data set from … hypothesis that small farmers in the north survey area have an advantage of efficiency in rice production. Since, although we …

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 …

The present study investigates the development (i.e., rise or decline) in African agricultural efficiency level and … what drives the efficiency over the years. A total of 379 frontier studies resulting in 534 farm level efficiency estimates … were considered using meta-regression analysis (MRA) for the empirical analysis. The results show that mean efficiency …

within consolidated farms). But, as we know, there is not any study which analyzes the technical efficiency in the … consolidated farms (CP) and compares it with the technical efficiency achieved by non-restructured farms (NCP. This work uses data … envelopment analysis (DEA) to compute technical efficiency measures of 72 dairy farms located in the northwest of Spain (Galicia …

(1) efficiency, (2) soil quality, (3) land size, (4) variable inputs, (5) capital inputs, and (6) outputs. Nonparametric …

-established and recent methods of efficiency and productivity analysis. The case is put for widespread application by benchmarkers of … recently developed methods of efficiency and productivity analysis. These methods have so far remained almost wholly in the … province of research. If successful, their application would enable a benchmarker to examine economic efficiency and its …