Measuring Economic Efficiency of Kidney Bean Production using Non-Discretionary Data Envelopment Analysis

Subject Areas : Econometrics and Financial Applications of other Theories (Stochastic Processes, (Stochastic) Partial Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems)

Alireza Khoshroo ¹ , Sanjeet Singh ²

1 - Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran.
2 - Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India

Received: 2020-08-10 Accepted : 2020-12-16 Published : 2021-04-01

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