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| Dhehibi, Boubaker. |
| The objective of this paper is to measure productive efficiency of irrigation water efficiency based on the concept of technical efficiency and compared among different sizes farms in Tunisia. The proposed methodology is applied to a randomly selected sample of 144 citrus growing farms and differentiated by size (small, medium and large farms). A stochastic production frontier approach, based on Battese and Coelli’s (1995) inefficiency effect model, is used to obtain farm-specific estimates of technical and irrigation water efficiency. The last step of the analysis consists on the identification of the factors influencing irrigation water efficiency differentials across citrus growing farms. Empirical results show that estimated mean technical efficiency... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Water Efficiency; Stochastic frontier production function; Small; Medium and large citrus farms; Tunisia; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114441 |
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| Gustafson, Cole R.. |
| The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including an overview of their firm's organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used in this study to compare the financial characteristics of urban and rural small businesses. Overall, rural small businesses have very similar financial characteristics, access to technology and financial services, sources of financial capital, and creditworthiness when compared to urban small businesses. Nonparametric rank order statistical methods were required when comparing dollar values of urban and rural small businesses because normality assumptions were violated due to the high concentration of small firms. On... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Rural; Small; Business; Finances; Survey; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23674 |
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| Dhehibi, Boubaker. |
| The objective of this paper is to measure productive efficiency of irrigation water efficiency based on the concept of technical efficiency and compared among different sizes farms. The proposed methodology is applied to a randomly selected sample of 144 citrus growing farms located in Nabeul (Tunisia) and differentiated by size (small, medium and large farms). A stochastic production frontier approach, based on Battese and Coelli’s (1995) inefficiency effect model, is used to obtain farm-specific estimates of technical and irrigation water efficiency. The last step of the analysis consists on the identification of the factors influencing irrigation water efficiency differentials across citrus growing farms on the basis on a second-stage regression... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Water Efficiency; Stochastic frontier production function; Small; Medium and large citrus farms; Tunisia; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97328 |
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| Gustafson, Cole R.. |
| The 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances provides robust information on the financing of small businesses including an overview of their firm's organization, financial characteristics, and credit use. Information from the survey is used in this study to compare the financial characteristics of food manufacturing and retailing small businesses. On average, both food manufacturing and food retailing small businesses had positive financial characteristics. Although they were only marginally profitable and liquid, they were highly solvent. Accounts receivable and inventory comprise nearly half of food manufacturers' total assets and a third of food retailers' assets. By most financial measures, food retailers were statistically smaller than food... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Business; Finances; Food; Manufacturing; Retail; Small; Survey; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23673 |
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