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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Assessing the Perspectives of EU Cotton Farming: Technical and Scale Efficiencies of Greek Cotton Growers	
Autores: 	Pantzios,   Christos J.; Rozakis,   Stelios; Tzouvelekas,   Vangelis.	
Data: 	2006-05-23	
Ano: 	2002	
Palavras-chave: 	Technical and scale inefficiency; Stochastic frontier models; Cotton production; Greece; Crop Production/Industries; C33; D24; O13.	
Resumo: 	Utilizing the stochastic frontier approach, this paper estimates output and input-oriented technical and scale efficiency levels for a sample of cotton-growing farms in Thessaly, Greece. The empirical results suggest that Greek cotton farm operations are technically and scale inefficient. There is a considerable scope for improvement in resource use and thereby in farm income of cotton farms; Greek cotton farmers could reduce production costs by 20.4%, making more efficient utilization of the existing production technology. Factors responsible for the technical efficiency differentials observed among cotton-growers include the farmer's age and education as well as the farm's land fragmentation and output specialization.	
Tipo: 	Conference Paper or Presentation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	21469

http://purl.umn.edu/24844	
Editor: 	AgEcon Search	
Relação: 	European Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain

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Formato: 	22

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