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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Assessing the Perspectives of EU Cotton Farming: Technical and Scale Efficiencies of Greek Cotton Growers
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| Autores: |
Pantzios, Christos J.
Rozakis, Stelios
Tzouvelekas, Vangelis
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| Data: |
2006-05-23
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| Ano: |
2002
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| Palavras-chave: |
Technical and scale inefficiency
Stochastic frontier models
Cotton production
Greece
Crop Production/Industries
C33
D24
O13
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| 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.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
21469
http://purl.umn.edu/24844
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
European Association of Agricultural Economists>2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain
Contributed Paper
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| Formato: |
22
application/pdf
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