Contract farmer and poultry farm efficiency in Bangladesh: A data envelopment analysis

Applied Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 3737-3747

  Begum, Ismat Ara ^a,b   Alam, Mohammad Jahangir ^a,b   Buysse, Jeroen ^a   Frija, Aymen ^a   van Huylenbroeck, Guido ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; DEA; Efficiency; Poultry contract farming; Tobit analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CONTRACT FARMING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FARMING SYSTEM; HUMAN CAPITAL; POULTRY;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 80052014739     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.581216     Document Type: Article

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