Changes in the technical and scale efficiency of rice production activities in the Mekong delta, Vietnam

Agricultural and Food Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tung, Diep Thanh ^a,b  

^a TRA VINH UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Data envelopment analysis; Mekong delta; Returns to scale; Rice production; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948778776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21937532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-7532-1-16     Document Type: Article

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