Assessing the perspectives of eu cotton farming: technical and scale efficiencies of greek cotton growers
- Literature reference
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- Author
- V. Tzouvelekas and C. Pantzios and S. Rozakis
- English title of the work
- Assessing the perspectives of eu cotton farming: technical and scale efficiencies of greek cotton growers
- Title of the work
- Assessing the perspectives of eu cotton farming: technical and scale efficiencies of greek cotton growers
- Year of publication
- 2002
- Page number
- 22
- Publisher's address
- Zaragoza
- Publisher's name
- European Association of Agricultural Economists
- URL Address
- http://purl.umn.edu/24844
- Countries concerned
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Greece
- Associated thesauruses
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Colire
- Keywords Colire
Measure application conditions
Decoupling conditions
Effectiveness/efficiency assessment
Policy Direct effects
- Saved on
- 2011-12-14
- Modifed on
- 2011-12-14
- Administrated by
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Botonaki Anna
- Abstract
- Utilizing the stochastic frontier approach, this paper estimates output and input-oriented technical and scale efficiency levels for a sample of cotton-growing farms in Thessaly, Greece. The empirical results suggest that Greek cotton farm operations are technically and scale inefficient. There is a considerable scope for improvement in resource use and thereby in farm income of cotton farms; Greek cotton farmers could reduce production costs by 20.4%, making more efficient utilization of the existing production technology. Factors responsible for the technical efficiency differentials observed among cotton-growers include the farmer’s age and education as well as the farm’s land fragmentation and output specialization.