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| Uaiene, Rafael N.; Arndt, Channing. |
| This article provides estimates of farm household efficiency and its determinants among smallholder farmers in Mozambique. A translog stochastic frontier production function and a first difference model incorporating a model of farm household inefficiency effects are applied to test the existence of agricultural farm household inefficiencies and their determinants in Mozambique. The null hypothesis of equal farm household efficiency among households was rejected. Variation in farm household efficiency indicates that access to agricultural technology is a severe constraint for most farm households. Factors such as access to advisory services, access to rural credit, membership to an agricultural association, use of improved agricultural technology... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Stochastic frontier analysis; Farm production efficiency; Productivity Analysis; C12; C13. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51438 |
