Economic efficiency of small scale soyabean farmers in Central Agricultural Zone, Nigeria: A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier cost function approach
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2006-9774
DOI: 10.5897/jdae2015.0688