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| Arouna, Aminou; Adegbola, Patrice Ygue; Adekambi, Souleimane Adeyemi. |
| This study contributes to the debate regarding the competitiveness of developing countries in the context of globalization. To take advantage of this trend, developing countries will have to position themselves properly through new policies and efficiency in production. In Benin, new orientation of agricultural policy concerns the diversification of exported products. Therefore, and due to the decrease of international price of cotton which represents the main exported crop, cashew nut, the second exported crop by Benin, becomes more interesting for government policy. The study quantified cashew nut production farmers’ efficiency using a stochastic production frontier and a cost function combined with numerical classification. Primary data were collected... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Benin; Efficiency analysis; Exported products; Cashew nut; Policy; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95913 |
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