Improving energy productivity in paddy production through benchmarking - An application of data envelopment analysis

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1063-1085

  Chauhan, Narvendra Singh ^a   Mohapatra, Pratap K J ^b   Pandey, Keshaw Prasad ^b  

^a UTTAR BANGA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Cross efficiency matrix; Data envelopment analysis; Energy economics; Energy productivity; Energy use efficiency; Relative efficiency; Rice production

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

CROSS EFFICIENCY MATRIX; ENERGY PRODUCTIVITY; RICE PRODUCTION;

CROPS;

DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY; FARM CROPS; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 32344434117     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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