 Estimation of greenhouse unit’s efficiency for planning sustainable culture pattern (The case study: Zabol city, Iran)Mahdi Babaei, Fatemeh Rastegaripour, Mahmoud Sabouhi and Abolfazl Tavassoli No 290440, 2011 ASAE 7th International Conference, October 13-15, Hanoi, Vietnam from Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) Abstract: Iran due to specific climatic conditions and water restriction is a country that requires substantial revision in the structure of culture and development; in this regard greenhouse cultivation can be presented as a suitable way. In this study the technical efficiency units of cucumber greenhouse in Zabol and the following sections were calculated using data envelopment analysis and application of linear programming models. Data needed to complete the study questionnaire 42 cucumbers greenhouse units were collected in the city of Zabol. Results showed that the average efficiency of Zabol city was equal to 71 percent. Technical efficiency was estimates equal to one for 38 percent of the greenhouses, too. Greenhouse technical efficiency in subsectors of Zabol (Shibab, central, Miankangi and Postab) was 88, 81, 64, 50 percent, respectively. Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:asae11:290440 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 2011 ASAE 7th International Conference, October 13-15, Hanoi, Vietnam from Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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