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(1) efficiency, (2) soil quality, (3) land size, (4) variable inputs, (5) capital inputs, and (6) outputs. Nonparametric …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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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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 …
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-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 …
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milk production farms. A significant number of indexing procedures is accessible to evaluate the efficiency in converting … Emilia Romagna Region DG Agriculture. The study highlights how the TFP is a convenient index to evaluate the efficiency in …
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In modern agriculture, pesticides feature so prominently in growers’ arsenal to reduce crop damage caused by various pests and diseases. But their indiscriminate use can harm human health and the environment and, eventually, impact agricultural productivity negatively. In an era of an...
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