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Technical efficiency of smallholders’ traditional African vegetable production in Tanzania: a stochastic frontier approach

Article number

1103_35

Pages

241 – 250

Language

English

Abstract

Publication

XXIX International Horticultural Congress on Horticulture: Sustaining Lives, Livelihoods and Landscapes (IHC2014): XVII International Symposium on Horticultural Economics and Management and V International Symposium on Improving the Performance of Supply Chains in the Transitional Economies

Authors

S. Rajendran, V. Afari-Sefa, R.F. Kessy, K.D. Karanja, R. Musebe, S. Samali, M. Makaranga

Keywords

farmers, inefficiency, resource use, inputs, technology

Full text

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2015.1103.35

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