Efficiency and its determinant factors for smallholder farms in the Grain for Green Program on the Loess Plateau, China

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 772-778

  Li, Li ^a   Tsunekawa, Atsushi ^a   Tsubo, Mitsuru ^a   Koike, Atsushi ^a   Wang, Jijun ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; Farm size; Labor mobility; Land fragmentation; Land tenure; Scale efficiency; Semi arid region; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHINA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL STATUS; TILLAGE; ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CULTIVATED LAND; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LABOR; MIGRATION; PRODUCTIVITY; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM; URBAN AREA;

EID: 78751674477     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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