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Technical efficiency, technical change and return to scale of rice, maize and agricultural production in Vietnam
Tran, Duc Tri - 2020
The rapid growth of human population has impacted on global food security, development and health. Therefore, efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals of reducing poverty and hunger needs to particularly focus on the critical linkages between agriculture, nutrition, health and...
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Technological change and risk management : an application to the economics of corn production
Kim, Kwan-soo; Chavas, Jean-Paul - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 29 (2003) 2, pp. 125-142
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Technical efficiency of improved and local variety seed maize farms in Ghana : a meta-frontier analysis
Kodua, Theophilus Tweneboah; Onumah, Edward E.; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17
The meta-frontier model technique is employed to compare the technical efficiency levels of improved and local maize seed variety farms in Ghana using a cross-sectional data from 214 farmers. The study shows that inefficiencies in maize production relate to exogenous variables considered even...
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The effects of educational externalities on maize production in rural Malawi
Mussa, Richard - In: Oxford development studies 43 (2015) 4, pp. 508-532
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Technical change in corn production in the United States, 1870-1960
Bray, James O.; Watkins, Patricia - In: Journal of farm economics 46 (1964) 4, pp. 751-765
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Impacts of improved seed maize technology adoption on productivity and technical efficiency in Northern Ghana
Dokyi, Emmanuel; Anang, Benjamin Tetteh; Owusu, Victor - In: Open economics 4 (2021) 1, pp. 118-132
Improved seed is one of the crucial ingredients for promoting agricultural productivity, farmers’ livelihood, and … improved seed maize technology (ISMT) adoption on technical efficiency and productivity using data from maize farmers in … technical efficiency by 16.1% and increased maize productivity by 33.8%. The study recommends dissemination of improved maize …
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Total factor productivity growth in China's corn farming : an application of generalized productivity indicator
Niu, Zhiyong; Zhang, Yining; Li, Tianxiang; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 5, pp. 1189-1208
Total factor productivity (TFP) growth measures usually focus on a certain direction of optimization and ignore the …
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The effect of mechanization on agricultural production in the Ottoman State
Demir, Kenan - In: Strategic outlook in business and finance innovation : …, (pp. 99-109). 2021
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Chapter 22. The Economics of Innovation and Technical Change in Agriculture
Pardey, Philip G.; Alston, Julian M.; Ruttan, Vernon W. - 2010
&D attribution, the nature and length of the lags between research spending and its impacts on productivity, and various dimensions …
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Role of technology in small farmers' productivity in Africa
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