Farm size and the determinants of productive efficiency in the Brazilian Center-West

By S. Helfand, Edward S. Levine. 2004

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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The cost efficiency of trout farms in the Black Sea Region, Turkey (2006, background): “84 rience and inefficiency confirmed the result of Kaliba and Engle (2004). However, some authors have stated that there is a positive relationship between schooling and inefficiency (Battese et al.”
Determinants of adoption and productivity of improved rice varieties in southwestern Nigeria (2009, neutral): “Literatures (Helfand and Levine, 2004; Rios and Shively, 2005)”
Agricultural Productivity in the European Regions: Trends and Explanatory Factors (2007, background): “An additional possibility to be considered is that certain agricultural activities may be more productive than others (Helfand and Levine, 2004).”
An application of the DEA double bootstrap to examine sources of efficiency in Bangladesh rice farming (2008, background): “Recent examples include Wadud and White (2000), Otsuki, et al. (2002), Coelli et al. (2002), Wadud (2003), Binam et al. (2003), Wu et al. (2003), Dhungana et al. (2004), Helfand and Levine (2004) and Chavas et al. (2005).”
The Role of Smallholder Farms in a Changing World (2020, background): “Multiple studies, however, have called into question the absolute efficiency advantage of small farms (Helfand and Levine 2004; Barrett et al. 2010).”
The future of small farms in Asia (2016, neutral): “…Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, where scale economies are observed (Key and Runsten, 1999; Rozelle and Swinnen, 2004; Gorton and Davidova, 2004; Helfand and Levine, 2004; Eastwood, Lipton, and Newell, 2009; Deininger and Byerlee, 2012). labour-saving production methods, such as using…”
Assessing Brazil’s Cerrado agricultural miracle (2013, background): “Helfand and Levine (2004) find a nonlinear relationship between farm size and technical efficiency, the efficiency first declining and then rising with farm size.”