Assessing the impact of crop specialization on farms’ performance in vegetables farming in Benin: a non-neutral stochastic frontier approach
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Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Food Security and Poverty; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2013-06-04 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2013-06-04 (Efficiency and Productivity)
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