Application of data envelopment analysis to assess performance efficiency of eight faba bean varieties

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1225-1231

  Etemadi, Fatemeh ^a   Hashemi, Masoud ^a   Shureshjani, Roohollah Abbasi ^b   Autio, Wesley R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Behbahan Khatam Alanbia University of Technology   (Iran)

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EID: 85023749067     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: 14350645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2016.10.0617     Document Type: Article

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