Returns to Scale and Optimal Output in Beekeeping in Malaysia

Muzafar Shah Habibullah () and Mohd Mansor Ismail
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Mohd Mansor Ismail: University Pertanian Malaysia

Indian Economic Review, 1992, vol. 27, issue 2, pages 229-234

Abstract: The objective of this note is to determine the returns to scale and the optimal output of a sample of Malaysian beekeeping data, employing the ray-homothetic production function. Our results suggest that, more than 90 percent of the beekeepers in the sample experienced increasing returns to scale.

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Date: 1992

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