Energy efficiency and econometric analysis of broiler production farms

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6536-6541

  Heidari, M D ^a   Omid, M ^a   Akram, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Broiler; Economic analysis; Energy consumption; Energy ratio; Modeling; Production function

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MACHINERY; PROFITABILITY;

BENEFIT TO COST RATIOS; BROILER; COBB-DOUGLAS; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY INPUTS; ENERGY RATIO; ESTIMATED MODEL; HIGH IMPACT; HUMAN LABOR; INPUT ENERGY; NET RETURN; OUTPUT ENERGY; PRODUCTION FUNCTION; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; RETURNS TO SCALE; SPECIFIC ENERGY; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FARMING SYSTEM; MEAT; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

IRAN; YAZD;

AVES;

EID: 84975702366     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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