sugar beet as an industrial crop plays a main role in satisfying domestic demand of sugar. study on the production efficiency of sugar beet is important because this is a factor that influences production without additional cost. in this study, data envelopment analysis approach (dea), was implemented to calculate technical, administrative and scale efficiency of sugar beet production. also opt...

abstract quantitative analysis of production through evaluating the level of factor usage is a major part in agricultural management, which aims at increasing production by optimum usage of resources. this study has estimated and analyzed stochastic frontier production function and calculated technical efficiency of semi-mechanized broiler farms located in gorgan district. the survey data were ...

Constructed the empirical model for the study of the differences of the operational efficiency of furniture enterprises in Guangdong province, evaluated the technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency of these furniture enterprises with DEA and took pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency as variables for cluster analysis. According to the results, we divided fur...

To cope with changes in industrial concentration, consumer preferences, more stringent meat safety measures by the governmental agencies, and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the North America Free Trade Agreement, companies in the U.S. meat industry need to attain as high levels of technical efficiency as possible. The purpose of the study is three-fold: (1) measure the level of pure t...

Background & Aims: Hospitals as the largest and most costly operational units in health care system have special importance. The rate of their efficiency can be used as a criterion for the measurement of performance and productivity of resource consumption in hospitals. The purpose of this study was to determine the technical efficiency of general hospitals of Kerman University of Medical Scien...

Objective: The aims of this study were to determine energy efficiency and CO2 use pattern of grape production in Zanjan province, Iran by a non-parametric method of data envelopment analysis (DEA). Methods: Initial data were collected using a face to face questionnaire from 42 orchards in Abhar city of Zanjan province which is one of the most important centers of grape production in ...