In this paper, non parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was subjected to the energy data of wheat producers in Punjab state, India, and technical, pure technical and scale efficiencies were calculated for farms both category wise and zone wise. The main objective was to determine the strength of the correlation between non-parametric efficiencies and indices such as energy ratio and speci...

Crop prices can affect farm productivity through input- output decisions. This study assesses the relationship between crop and changes among a sample of Kansas farms. The in total factor are evaluated using nonparametric approach with Malmquist index potential drivers technical efficiency change analyzed. Farms higher leverage greater diversification likely to be more efficient experience chan...

The non-agricultural employment transfer of the rural labor force has fundamentally changed input in China recent decades. A good understanding how off-farm laborers affects agricultural land use is needed. We Driscoll and Kraay standard errors fixed effects model to investigate relationship between laborers’ efficiency based on a panel data 1961 counties China. find that distribution county-le...

In developing countries, irrigation can help to decrease poverty in rural areas through increased employment the agricultural sector. Evidence shows that may increase farm productivity and technical efficiency. this paper, we estimate effect of on efficiency Brazil using 2006 Agricultural Census dataset more than 4 million farms. We a stochastic production frontier at level, considering potenti...

Abstract Sustainable Intensification (SI) practices offer adopters exploiting improvement potentials in environmental performance of farming, i.e. enhance ecosystem functionality, while maintaining productivity. This paper proposes a directional meta-frontier approach for measuring farms’ eco-efficiency and respective the direction ecological output SI evaluation. We account selection processes...