This paper attempts to understand the linkages between human capital and input choice in agricultural firms. The hypothesis to be tested is that better educated managers choose different input combinations than managers with a lower educational level. In particular, the hypothesis is that the...

This paper presents some results of extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan during the 2001-02 and 2002-03 agricultural years, concerning techniques used for growing wheat, the main staple crop of the country, and provides estimates of technical coefficients, costs of production and margins for each...

The availability of efficiency estimation software - freely distributed via the internet and relatively easy to use - recently inflated the number of corresponding applications. The resulting efficiency estimates are used without a critical assessment with respect to the literature on...

Zimbabwe, just like many other developing nations has its economic growth path mapped mainly by the agricultural sector. The agricultural sector has been labelled the backborne of many economies, and countries are reprioritizing agriculture and food security as paramount to human development....

Profitability of the specialist beef production in the Australian Beef Industry is undertaken using a break-even model. The results reveal that during the financial years 1991-1996, the specialist beef producers were operating above the break-even level in the states of South Australia and to...

A regional shift in haricot bean production occurred in Talas Oblast in Kyrgyzstan during the last decade. Almost half of the agricultural land in the region is now dedicated to bean cultivation, primarily for export outside the Central Asian region. This paper includes an overview of the...

The issue of adequate assessment of socio-economic and ecological sustainability of divers agricultural holdings is among most topical academic and practical problems. It is particularly important for smallholder farms accounting for the majority of all farms in the globe. In Bulgaria...

We address the general problem of selection bias, endemic to analyzing the effects of any policy where adoption is voluntary, with empirical application to environmental policies for agriculture. Many voluntary practices for mitigating the environmental impacts of agriculture provide external...

The paper presents analysis of influence of total agriculture progress on changes of unit costs in broiler chicken production in 1994-2015. Results of annual assessment of utility value of broiler chicken in Poland were taken as a measure of total progress in production. This assessment was...

Most empirical studies seeking to estimate firm-level production technologies via proxy variable estimators focus on single-output production functions despite that, in practice, the majority of firms produce multiple outputs. Arguably, the primary reason for vast popularity of a single-product...