The costs and benefits of land fragmentation of rice farms in Japan

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 509-526

  Kawasaki, Kentaro ^a  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY ASSAY LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Economies of size; Farmland fragmentation; Just Pope production function; Panel data; Stochastic frontier cost function

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; FRAGMENTATION; PADDY FIELD; PANEL DATA; RICE; STOCHASTICITY;

JAPAN;

ORYZA SATIVA (JAPONICA CULTIVAR-GROUP);

EID: 77957118436     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2010.00509.x     Document Type: Article

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