| Type | Thesis or Dissertation - Professional Doctorate in Business Administration |
| Title | An analysis of technical efficiency of crop farms in the northern region of Vietnam |
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| Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.canberra.edu.au/researchrepository/file/065ddce3-edef-4a68-9a5a-a6eac2be3c7b/1/full_text.pdf |
| Abstract | Vietnamese agriculture is dominated by small-scale farm households. The diversified cropping system is common in northern Vietnamese agriculture. Farms have been transformed since independence, from self-sufficient systems that produced mainly rice, to diversified farming systems, which now produce and market a large variety of products. This thesis aims at identifying the determinants of technical efficiency of farm households. The approach of this thesis offers some other important innovations over previous Vietnamese studies. Technical efficiency estimates are measured for diversified crops rather than individual crops. This is important because, a major challenge in examining production of farm households is crop diversification. |