Efficiency of Estonian grain farms in 2000-2004

Agricultural and Food Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-40

  Vasiliev, Nikolay ^a,b   Astover, Alar ^a   Mõtte, Mati ^a   Noormets, Merrit ^a   Reintam, Endla ^a   Roostalu, Hugo ^a   Matveev, Eduard ^b  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b Rural Economy Research Centre   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Farm size; Grain farms; Scale efficiency; Technical efficiency; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649142213     PISSN: 14596067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2137/145960608784182272     Document Type: Article

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