Productive efficiency of tea industry: A stochastic frontier approach

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 3808-3816

  Baten, Md Azizul ^a   Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah ^a   Haque, Mohammad Anamul ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Likelihood ratio test; Stochastic frontier; Tea industry; Technical efficiency; Translog production

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CROP PRODUCTION; EQUIPMENT; FOOD INDUSTRY; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TEA;

EID: 77954866891     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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