[PDF] Top 20 Determinants Of Cost Efficiency Among Sugarcane Farmers: A Stochastic Frontier Cost Function Approach

... the farmers with little education, of course, have contribution but not statistically ...level cost inefficiency, the corresponding frequency and its percentage of farm household belong to each category are ... See full document

... the determinants of the profit efficiency of Islamic banks using the stochastic frontier analysis stochastic frontier ...compare efficiency between Islamic ...profit ... See full document

... that farmers that belong to cooperative organization have more access to training, credit, production inputs and agricultural information, which enhances their ...educated farmers probably devoted much of ... See full document

... basic efficiency index ...DEA approach is that multiple- input and multiple-output technologies can be modelled without behavioral assumptions and price ...parametric stochastic frontier ... See full document

... banks’ cost and profit ...more cost and profit efficient than domestic banks, which may relate to the openness of New Zealand’s banking system, and may suggest that foreign owned banks in New Zealand might ... See full document

... Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function to measure the level of technical efficiency and its determinants in small-holder cocoyam production in Anambra state, ...cocoyam ... See full document

... specific function type for the efficiency frontier and estimates the efficiency frontier parametric- ...ciency frontier and, based on this estimation, measuring the ... See full document

... the determinants of technical efficiency among irrigated rice farmers The estimates of the stochastic frontier production function for irrigated rice production is ... See full document

... profit function approach combines the concepts of technical and allocative efficiency in the profit relationship and any errors in the production decision are assumed to be translated into lower ... See full document

... the stochastic frontier translog production and cost parameters for cocoyam are presented in Table 2 and 3 ...the cost function, the sigma (σ 2 = ...cocoyam farmers that are ... See full document

... by farmers, inability to finance farm technologies and other farm expenditure owing to the lower per capita income of farmers and higher prices of those ...more cost effective than applying new ... See full document

... of stochastic frontier production function was given by Aigner, Lovell and Schimdt (1977) for cross sectional data which had an error term with two parts one for random effects and another for ... See full document

... sector efficiency (Das and Drine, 2011; Sherman and Gold, ...the stochastic process to derive cost efficiency for the banking industry using panel ...five stochastic models to ... See full document

... use efficiency in production of wheat was observed to be rather ...technical efficiency and the mean technical efficiency in the production of wheat could be estimated as much as 94%, which indicated ... See full document

... technical efficiency and allocative efficiency is achieved through the assessment of production frontier and cost frontier of the rice ...of frontier chosen is the ... See full document

... translog stochastic frontier cost function to measure the level of economic efficiency and it’s determinants in small-holder cocoyam production in Anambra state, ...cocoyam ... See full document

... scarce farmers try to do use them with utmost ...Albanian farmers, the need to increase use of inputs for more production and associated perhaps with high ...lower efficiency scores for the input ... See full document

... Vegetable farming activities in tropical Africa has always been dominated by women who grow a substantial amount of the staple foods, yet, they have much less access to knowledge, technology, credit and land than their ... See full document

... conversion efficiency (Gerbens-­‐Leenes et ...the efficiency of feed conversion, will theoretically reduce the water footprint and greenhouse gas emissions from poultry ... See full document

... While available data suggest that the SSO’s health care organizations are already under extreme economic pres- sure to the extends that the quality of care is obviously scarified in the favor of reduced costs, the ... See full document