Technical efficiency of carp pond culture in South Asia: An application of a stochastic meta‐production frontier model

Aquaculture Economics and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 169-189

  Sharma, Khem R ^a   Leung, Pingsun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Carp production; Meta production frontier; South Asia; Stochastic production frontier; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; FISHERY PRODUCTION; POND CULTURE; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

ASIA;

EID: 0034448559     PISSN: 13657305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13657300009380268     Document Type: Article

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