Technical- and environmental-efficiency analysis of irrigated cotton-cropping systems in Punjab, Pakistan using data envelopment analysis

Environmental Management

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 288-300

  Ullah, Asmat ^a   Perret, Sylvain R ^b  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Cotton farming; Data envelopment analysis; Environmental efficiency; Production costs; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COSTS; COTTON; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AVERAGE POTENTIAL; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE; ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; ECONOMIC RETURNS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY; POLICY INTERVENTION; PRODUCTION COST; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; COTTON; COTTON CROPPING SYSTEM; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROPPING SYSTEM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FARMING SYSTEM; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PAKISTAN; PRODUCTIVITY; SOWING; TRAINING;

AGRICULTURE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; GOSSYPIUM; HUMANS; INCOME; NITROGEN; PAKISTAN; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHORUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905579556     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0300-4     Document Type: Article

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