ASSESSING TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF WHEAT FARMERS IN PAKISTAN: A COMPARISON TO PRIOR PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSES OF PAKISTANI AGRICULTURE

Under the background of the requirement of high availability and high performance on the basis of the large-scale distributing type application in agriculture, makes more researches on the component cluster's application management, deployment management and performance management. Based on above researches, completes a developed platform for Electronic Agriculture with compatible J2EE standard...

The paper investigates the impact of subsidies and of para-agriculture on the technical efficiency of organic farms in Switzerland, Austria and Southern Germany. The data-set consists of bookkeeping data with 1,704 observations in the years 2003 to 2005. Technical efficiency is modelled using a stochastic distance-frontier model combined with a Metafrontier-model. The results show almost no eff...

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of entrepreneurial characteristics of members of technical and engineering companies and agricultural advisory services on their willingness toward entrepreneurial activities. Entrepreneurship development plays an important role in job creation process which can eventually lead to the achievement of sustainable development goals in ag...

BACKGROUND This study investigates approaches for translating evidence-based knowledge for use by fitness trainers. Specific questions were: Where do fitness trainers get their evidence-based information? What types of interventions are effective for translating evidence-based knowledge for use by fitness trainers? What are the barriers and facilitators to the use of evidence-based information ...