Technical Efficiency of Small-Holder Cocoyam Farmers in Anambra State, Nigeria, Using a Translog Stochastic Frontier Production Function
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Translog Stochastic Frontier Production Function; Technical Efficiency.;JEL classification:
- D69 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Other
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
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