Essays about: "gemechu"

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  1. 1. Off-farm income and technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia : a stochastic frontier analysis

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Getahun Gemechu Abebe; [2014]
    Keywords : Cobb-Douglas; maximum likelihood estimation; off-farm income; smallholder farmers; technical efficiency;

    Abstract : As in most developing countries, agricultural production in Ethiopia is dominated by subsistence-based smallholder farmers, whose production and incomes from the sector are constrained by socio-economic, institutional, resource and environmental factors. These factors generally attribute for lower productivity of the sector, which in turn forces farmers to participate in off-farm activities in order to diversify their sources of income. READ MORE