Productivity and efficiency of large and small field crop farms and mixed farms of the old and new EU regions

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 61-71

  Błazejczyk Majka, Lucyna ^a   Kala, Radosław ^b   Maciejewski, Krzysztof ^c  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agriculture in the EU; Data envelopment analysis; Scale efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857978279     PISSN: 0139570X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/48/2011-agricecon     Document Type: Article

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