Technical efficiency of the Ugandan matoke farms

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 491-494

  Heshmati, Almas ^a   Mulugeta, Yilma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANANA CULTIVATION; FARM PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

UGANDA;

EID: 0029798130     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/758540813     Document Type: Article

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