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Comparing technical efficiency of organic and conventional coffee farms in Nepal using data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach
Poudel, Krishna Lal; Yamamoto, Naoyuki; Sugimoto, Yasuhiro - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2011
(120 from each) coffee famers. Mean technical efficiency score was 0.89 and 0.83 in organic and conventional coffee farming … respectively. Farms operating under CRS, DRS and IRS were 31.67, 3.83 and 37.5% respectively in organic coffee and 29.17, 25 and 45 …
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Discounting Spotted Apples: Investigating Consumers’ Willingness to Accept Cosmetic Damage in an Organic Product
Yue, Chengyan; Alfnes, Frode; Jensen, Helen H. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41 (2009) 01
The appearance of organic produce is often less than perfect because of limited methods of avoiding plant diseases. We … for apples. We find that 75% of the participants are willing to pay more for organic than for conventional apples given … identical appearance. However, at the first sight of any imperfection in the appearance of the organic apples, this segment is …
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The economics and productivity of organic versus conventional U.S. dairy farms
Nehring, Richard F.; Gillespie, Jeffrey; Greene, Catherine - In: Journal of agricultural and applied economics : JAEE 53 (2021) 1, pp. 134-152
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Technical efficiency in the Spanish agrofood industry
Apezteguia, Belen Iraizoz; Garate, Manuel Rapun - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 17 (1997) 2-3
This study estimates frontier production functions with cross-section data for the Spanish agrofood industry by using deterministic and stochastic parametric approaches. We compute the individual technical efficiency for each firm, compare the results and explain the relationship between...
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Estimating technical efficiency under technological heterogeneity in Hungarian crop sector
Barath, Lajos; Ferto, Imre - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2012
Technological heterogeneity is an important issue in studies of agricultural production. We assume that this is much more serious in transition countries, since the agricultural sector in these countries is characterized by the presence of even more different technologies and structures....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913621
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An Analysis of Scope Economies and Technical Efficiency in Intensive Rainfed Lowland Rice-based Cropping Systems in Northwest Luzon, Philippines
Villano, Renato A.; Lucas, Marilou P.; Pandey, Sushil - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005
Farming in the rainfed lowlands of northwest Luzon, Philippines, is highly intensive, diversified, and commercialised. The cropping-system is predominantly rice-based in the wet season and high-value cash crops are grown during the dry season. Using panel data from 100 randomly selected farmers,...
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Technical Efficiency Effects of Technological Change: Another Perspective on GM Crops
Weaver, Robert D.; Curtiss, Jarmila; Brümmer, Bernhard - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005
An important approach to reducing persistent technical inefficiency is through technical change. This paper considers the case of genetically modified crop production. A stochastic frontier approach is used to examine how a drastic change from non-GM to GM technology effects the position of the...
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The influence of management characteristics on the technical efficiency of wheat farmers in eastern England
Wilson, Paul; Hadley, David; Asby, Carol - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 24 (2001) 3
Technical efficiency of wheat farms in eastern England is measured through the estimation of a stochastic frontier production function using panel data for the 1993-1997 crop years. Variations in the technical efficiency index across production units are explained through a number of managerial...
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Input and output technical efficiencies of wheat production in Kerman, Iran
Bakhshoodeh, Mohammad; Thomson, Kenneth J. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 24 (2001) 3
The Iranian government encourages farmers to produce wheat (a common agricultural enterprise) by increasing farm productivity and efficiency. In this paper, using a Cobb-Douglas frontier production function, a simple relationship between a fatm-level output-based technical efficiency measure...
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Analyzing the impact of direct subsidies on the performance of the Greek Olive Farms with a non-monotonic efficiency effects model
Zhu, Xueqin; Karagiannis, Giannis; Oude Lansink, Alfons … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
We analyse the impacts of the CAP reforms on technical efficiency of Greek olive farms. We use a production frontier function and a non-monotonic inefficiency effects model which incorporates the influences of exogenous variables on the mean and the variances of farm efficiency. We formulate...
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