A stochastic frontier approach for measuring technical efficiencies of date farms in southern Tunisia

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 285-298

  Belloumi, Mounir ^a   Matoussi, Mohamed Salah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Date production; Groundwater management; Nefzaoua oases; Private and GIC systems; Salinization; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846389280     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500006730     Document Type: Article

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