3 articles found for keyword search: Modeling
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Statistical Modeling of Crop-Weather Relationship in India: A Survey on Evolutionary Trend of Methodologies
Weather factors, like other inputs such as land, labor, seeds, irrigation, fertilizer, and pesticides are also direct inputs in crop production. In a state of agriculture where the adoption and diffusion of modern technologies is very low or almost nil, weather factors count more than other inputs...Volume 15 Issue No. 1 (June 2018) -
Linking the Gross National Happiness Concept to Smallholder Farm Level: An Empirical Application
This study aims to refine the gross national happiness (GNH) development concept of Bhutan at the farm level and to show the major temporal and spatial trends in the development of rural areas with differing agroecological conditions and adoption of cattle crossbreeding. The study areas (four...Volume 16 Issue No. 1 (June 2019) -
Assessment of Neighborhood and Spillover Effects on Technical Efficiency of Irrigated Rice Farmers
Neighborhood and spillover effects on technical efficiency were investigated among 270 randomly drawn farming households from 18 irrigated villages in Guimba, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, using a two-step procedure. In the first stage, stochastic frontier production function was used to estimate...Volume 14 Issue No. 2 (December 2017)