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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
How Inefficient Really Are the Small-Scale Rice Farmers in Eastern India?: Examining the Effects of Microtopography on the Estimation of Technical Efficiency
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| Autores: |
Fuwa, Nobuhiko
Edmonds, Christopher M.
Banik, Pabitra
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| Data: |
2005-05-15
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Technical efficiency
Stochastic frontier production function
Productivity
Rice
India
Farm Management
O13
O33
Q12
Q16
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| Resumo: |
We focus on the impact of failing to control for differences in land types defined along toposequence on estimates of farm technical efficiency for small-scale rice farms in eastern India. In contrast with the existing literature, we find that those farms may be considerably more technically efficient than they appear from more aggregated analysis without such control. Farms planted with modern rice varieties are technically efficient. Furthermore, farms planted with traditional rice varieties operate close to the production frontier on less productive lands (upland and mid-upland), but significant technical inefficiency exists on more productive lands (medium land and lowland).
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
16224
http://purl.umn.edu/19435
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
American Agricultural Economics Association>2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI
Selected Paper 134130
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| Formato: |
30
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