We examine the role of adopting environmentally-friendly agricultural technologies on the technical efficiency (TE) among maize farmers in the mountainous areas of Northern Vietnam. While technology adoption is non-randomly assigned to farmers, we draw on recent advances of machine learning...

Northern Vietnam is famous for its maize production nationally, however, due to the conventional farming practice of farmers, the efficiency of maize production is still unmatched its potential. The government has already legislated many agricultural policies toward supporting by farmers by...