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Profit efficiency in family-owned crop farms in Eastern Cape Province of South Africa: a translog profit function approach [PDF]
Agriculture & Food Security, 2022 Background Farm productivity on smallholder family-owned crop farms remains low despite several interventions to transform agriculture especially in developing countries.
Nyarai M. Mujuru +3 more
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Mljekarstvo, 2018 This paper utilizes available data sets and a single translog profit function to examine the performance of dairy farms operating in mountain and lowland areas, respectively.
Jernej Prišenk +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 Enhancing profit efficiency in vegetable farming is important to increase income, livelihoods, and nutrition security, and to reduce poverty of smallholder farmers, particularly in developing countries.
Rudra Bahadur Shrestha +2 more
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Estimates of Farm Output Supply and Input Demand Elasticities: The Translog Profit Function Approach [PDF]
The Pakistan Development Review, 1998 The importance of estimating valid elasticities of farm output supply and input demand can hardly be overemphasised. Reliable estimates of these elasticities are sine qua non for predicting accurately the farmer responsiveness to changes in inputoutput prices and government taxes and thereby for formulating successful ...
Muhammad Ali Chaudhary +2 more
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Caraka Tani: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2021 Soya bean is an important economic crop for smallholder farming systems in Upper West Region of Ghana. In spite of the introduction of modern and improved soya bean production technologies in Ghana, the productivity of the crop in the region is still low.
Francis Akabo Asodina +5 more
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Land, 2022 Agricultural technological change plays a crucial role in food security and agricultural development. In the case of considering economic risks and technical risk tolerance, farmers will use different technologies to match production factors to achieve ...
Hui Luo +4 more
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Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 2020 Aims: Sesame productions are constantly bedeviled with menace because of inadequate supply of quality seed, extension services, credit facilities, presence of inefficiencies among others. The capacity of sesame producers to accept new innovation and achieve sustained production relies upon the level of profit efficiency, generally dictated by variable ...
E. Timothy +3 more
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Scientific African, 2019 In this study, we analysed the profit efficiency of Ghanaian maize farmers using data collected from 576 farmers in four agro ecological zones of Ghana. The stochastic frontier translog profit function was the main method of analysis.
Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa +3 more
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Effective factors on variations of wheat production in climatic regions of Fars province [PDF]
تحقیقات کاربردی علوم جغرافیایی, 2020 In an agricultural system, crop production is related to climatic conditions. Therefore, a deeper understanding of the impact of regional climate change on production ensures global food security.
leyla sharifi +4 more
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A stochastic frontier model for measuring online bank profit efficiency
South African Journal of Business Management, 2011 This study revisited an alternative profit efficiency function specified by Berger Mester, (1997) and we applied Battese Coelli, (1995) inefficiency model as a unified and consistent framework in exploring the determinants of important factors causing ...
M. A. Baten, A. A. Kamil
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