productivity and efficiency levels in maize production in CA and conventional farming. The analysis is based on a three year panel … sample of smallholder farming households and employing a stochastic production frontier model compare productivity and … technical efficiency between CA and conventional farming. Study results indicate that CA technology is implemented in relatively …

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 object of the present paper is to analyze the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental … marketing cooperatives in the fruit and vegetables sector to consider improvement in productivity and sound environmental … so-called Operative Programs (OP). The present study analyses the total factor productivity (TFP) related to …

We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth in developing countries between 1970 and 2005 … and examine the relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total … factor productivity (TFP) we employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP …

This paper examines the efficiency and welfare impact of landholdings in rural Vietnam. We utilize panel data set from … hypothesis that small farmers in the north survey area have an advantage of efficiency in rice production. Since, although we … confirm the inverse relationship between the land productivity and farm size, the average costs have increased rapidly as farm …

farmers allows innate efficiency differences, due to factors such as farm size, to be separated from the effects of the new … showed negative benefits in 1998-99, which conflicts with continued adoption, but stochastic efficiency frontier estimation …, which takes account of the labor saved, showed that adopters averaged 88% efficiency, as compared with 66% for the non …

distribution among the households, and for the concentration of land to households with higher efficiency. With a land rental … market in a dynamic economic development process, improvements in overall production efficiency of the households, however …

This research aims at shedding empirical light on the relative efficiency of small-scale maize producers in Romania … estimated due to the imposition of curvature correctness and the effects on the individual efficiency estimates are shown. The … empirical results show a relative high technical efficiency of the small-scale farmers but relatively poor scores on systematic …

the impact of reallocating water among the production sectors, on the basis of economic efficiency, on output growth … analyses suggest that this effect will be minimal if marginal productivity consideration for inter-sectoral water reallocation … is reduced to 30%, while intra-sectoral water reallocation on the basis of efficiency is currently viewed as the most …

of scale in Kenyan dairy in terms of relative profit efficiency at different levels of output, and identify policy and … significant effect on efficiency, confirming the relative competitiveness of small-scale dairy producers. Dairy farmers with … commercial poultry achieved higher relative profit efficiency as poultry waste was fed to cattle. Rural location relative to …