Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture Kyushu University · 2006 · 15 citations · 15 references
AgricultureAgricultural EconomicsLand-use PlanningFarm ManagementLand Use ManagementRural EconomicsAgricultural Land EconomicsAgricultural Land ManagementAgricultural Production EconomicsFarm Management EconomicsFarm ProductivityLand-use EconomicsDeterminants Of Farm ProductivityEfficiencyFarm Size StructureFarm-level EfficiencyLand ConstraintsLand Use ConstraintsLand-use IntensificationTraditional Land Use Management
This paper examines the effect of farm size on the productive efficiency of smallholder farms in a landscarce Embu district of Kenya. In particular, the study seeks to establish the relationship between farm size and three components of productive efficiency, namely technical, scale and allocative efficiency. We use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to generate input oriented measures of productive efficiency from a 2004 cross-sectional survey data collected over 120 smallholder farms.
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