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 proposed methodology that provides robust farm efficiency scores estimates. Using the 2007 Farm Accountancy Data … Network (FADN) data for Greece, analysis shows that the distribution of efficiency scores is closer to normality when … employing regression quantiles, while underestimation of efficiency obtained by other parametric or deterministic methods based …

of poor performance and decline. That recovery is the consequence of improved efficiency in production resulting from …

This article analyzes the efficiency of Water Users Associations (WUA) in the Cap Bon region(Tunisia) and studies its … Envelopment Analysis” (DEA) technique. TheDEA models are constructed not only to assess the overall WUA efficiency but also to … DEA model. In a second stage critical determinants of efficiency are determined using aTobit model. In this analysis the …

efficiency under strong disposability and weak disposability and a modified output oriented Malmquist index. The graph measure of … technical efficiency accounting for undesirable outputs reveals that regulations of agriculture GHG emission would be effective … efficiency change has been invariant to the treatment of the undesirable output as input. The average productivity growth is 2 …