Economic assessment of technological change and land degradation in agriculture: Application to the Sri Lanka tea sector

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 405-423

  Jayasuriya, Rohan T ^a  

^a NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Soil erosion; Sri Lanka tea; Technical change; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; CROP PRODUCTION; LAND DEGRADATION; TEA; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0242410134     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-521X(03)00068-4     Document Type: Article

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