The efficiency assessment of food safety in China's agriculture: A case study of the rice sector

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 521-528

  Zhang, Tao ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Distance input Environmental Efficiency (DEE); Distance output Technical Efficiency (DTE); Environmental performance; Food safety; Luenberger DEA; Managerial efficiency; Rice; Stochastic frontier model

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649195565     PISSN: 0139570X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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