differences in poverty among the EU Member States. This instrument is also appropriate for regional comparison among the regions … on selected poverty indicators. Using the composite indicator the development of the EU countries in the period 2004 â … progress was accomplished in Latvia, Hungary and Bulgaria. …

determinants of fish farms in Ghana using a cross-section data of 150 farms. It considers the explicit effects of family and hired … significant. Findings also show that family and hired labour used for fish farming in Ghana may be equally productive. Fish farms … in Ghana are revealed to be characterised by technology with increasing return to scale. The combined effects of …

The paper deals with an analysis of the technical and scale efficiency of farms operating in LFA. In particular, we … stochastic frontier model show that significant differences in the relationship between efficiency and farm size can only be … found for technical efficiency in the group of farms with more than 1000 hectares. The paper arose within the framework of …

Maize is a major staple crop in Ghana which needs to be produced optimally towards food security and commercialization …. In relation to this the study adopts the stochastic frontier model to analyze technical efficiency of maize farms in the … possibility to increase maize output by 17% at the given technology and input levels in the short run through the adoption of the …

product in Nigeria from an econometric perspective using time series data. The data were analysed using augmented dickey … revealed the existence of unidirectional causality from exchange rate to agricultural share of gross domestic production in … Nigeria and this implies that market driven exchange rate policy has been significant in influencing the trend in agricultural …

importance in applied production economic works. This paper estimates technical efficiency from the stochastic frontier model … results show a strong correlation between the alternative methods regardless of the differences in the actual values of the …€™s test suggest difference in means between the efficiency scores from different methods. Battese and Coelli’s approach …

ensuring efficiency in agricultural production. This paper attempts to examine the instrumental role of credit in ensuring … efficiency in the context of West Bengal agriculture by disaggregating the analysis for two mutually exclusive groups: bank … having access to formal credit are, in general, practicing cultivation more efficiently by channelizing credit in the …

management platforms have been developed and used in order to support EU-funded research and training projects in the area of … Organic Agriculture (OA). This tools transfer the technological infrastructure needed in order to facilitate specific tasks …://portal.cerorganic.eu), which is used for providing access to resources related to vocational education and training in the context of OA. …

The aim of the paper is to present in-depth view on the competitive environment of the Czech dairy industry. The … financial statement analysis evaluates the financial performance of the dairy industry in the period 2007 - 2011. The sample of … affected the financial performance of the Czech dairy industry in 2008. It was showed by unfavourable input-output price …

behavior of animal production businesses in the Czech Republic. Some authors have even reached the conclusion that the slump in …