Wheat productivity, efficiency, and sustainability: A stochastic production frontier analysis

Pakistan Development Review

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART 2, 2002, Pages 643-663

  Ahmad, Munir ^a   Chaudhry, Ghulam Mustafa ^a   Iqbal, Mohammad ^a  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; FARM SIZE; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; WHEAT;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 1842536356     PISSN: 00309729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30541/v41i4iipp.643-663     Document Type: Article

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