Technical efficiency and productivity potential of cocoa farmers in West African countries

Developing Economies

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 242-263

  Binam, Joachim Nyemeck ^a   Gockowski, Jim ^b   Nkamleu, Guy Blaise ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Cameroon)

^b NATIONAL NUCLEAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^c AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Cocoa farmers; Efficiency; Metaproduction frontier; Productivity potential; Technological gap

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; COCOA; ESTIMATION METHOD; STOCHASTICITY; SURVEY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; COTE D'IVOIRE; GHANA; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 50249100339     PISSN: 00121533     EISSN: 17461049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1049.2008.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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