Explaining technical inefficiency and the variation in income from apple adoption in highland Ethiopia: The role of unequal endowments and knowledge asymmetries

This paper considers the performance and quality of apple fruits and seedlings production in Chencha district of southern Ethiopia. The estimated, three-factor (labour, land and capital) production frontier reveals that the technical inefficiency is 60% and 48% for fruits and seedlings production, r...

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Main Authors: Sintayehu Hailu Alemu, Luuk van Kempen, Ruerd Ruben
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kassel University Press 2017-02-01
Series:Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics
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Online Access:http://jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2017010351827