Economic efficiency and optimum stocking densities in fish polyculture: An application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to Chinese fish farms

Aquaculture

Volumn 180, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 207-221

  Sharma, Khem R ^a   Leung, Pingsun ^a   Chen, Hailiang ^a   Peterson, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Data envelopment analysis; Economic efficiency; Fish polyculture; Optimum species mix

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033520809     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(99)00202-1     Document Type: Article

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