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Performance of the fruit crop industry in Ghana : empirical results and policy implications
Mensah, Amos - 2014
This study investigates the causes of declining output performance in the Ghanaian fruit pro-duction industry. Average industrial output level is lagging far behind that of competing na-tions (for instance, the productivity of Ghana pineapple farms is 60 T/Ha compared to 120 T/Ha for Cost Rica...
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Agrifood system participation and production efficiency among smallholder vegetable farmers in Northern Ghana
Abdul-Rahaman, Awal; Issahaku, Gazali; Ma, Wanglin - In: Agribusiness : an international journal 39 (2023) 3, pp. 812-835
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Technology and managerial gaps in contract farming : the case of specialty crop production
Mishra, Ashok K.; Mayorga, Joaquin; Kumar, Anjani - In: Journal of agricultural and resource economics : JARE ; … 47 (2022) 1, pp. 77-96
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Efficiency and Technology Gap in China's Agriculture: A Regional META-Frontier Analysis
Song, Shunfeng; Chen, Zhuo - Economics Department, University of Nevada-Reno; … - 2006
technologies. A meta-frontier analysis is applied to the counties. We find that although the eastern counties have the highest …
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Paradoxes of Traffic Flow and Economics of Congestion Pricing
Song, Shunfeng; Ding, Chengri; Zhang, Yiling - Economics Department, University of Nevada-Reno; … - 2008
technologies. A meta-frontier analysis is applied to the counties. We find that although the eastern counties have the highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005426913
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Technical efficiency and the technology gap in wetland rice farming in Indonesia : a metafrontier analysis
Junaedi, Mohammad; Daryanto, Heny Kuswanti Suwarsinah; … - In: International journal of food and agricultural … 4 (2016) 2, pp. 39-50
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A new approach to estimating the metafrontier production function based on a stochastic frontier framework
Huang, Cliff; Huang, Tai-Hsin; Liu, Nan-Hung - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 42 (2014) 3, pp. 241-254
CitationID="CR4">2004</CitationRef>), the metafrontier production function allows for calculating comparable TE measures, which … formulated and applied to obtain the estimates of the metafrontier, instead of relying on programming techniques. The so …
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A Metafrontier Production Function for Estimation of Technical Efficiencies and Technology Gaps for Firms Operating Under Different Technologies
Battese, George; Rao, D.; O'Donnell, Christopher - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 21 (2004) 1, pp. 91-103
This paper presents a metafrontier production function model for firms in different groups having different … technologies. The metafrontier model enables the calculation of comparable technical efficiencies for firms operating under … relative to the potential technology available to the industry as a whole. The metafrontier model is applied in the analysis of …
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Are Asian technology gaps due to human capital quality differences?
Ahmed, Elsadig Musa; Krishnasamy, Geeta - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 51-58
This paper adopts the meta-frontier framework using DEAP software to analyse the technological gap and level of catch …
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Efficiency, productivity and technology comparison for farms in Central and Western Europe: The case of field crop and dairy farming in Hungary and France
Latruffe, Laure; Fogarasi, József; Desjeux, Yann - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 2, pp. 264-278
) approach under each country's respective frontier and under a metafrontier. …
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