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Studying the Efficiency of Grape Growers and Its Effective Factors

Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities

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Title Studying the Efficiency of Grape Growers and Its Effective Factors
 
Creator Jafarzadeh, Saeed
Kiani, Ahmad
Raheli, Hossein
Kouhestani, Hossein
Yadavar, Hossein
Zarifian, Shapour
 
Description Grape is an important garden crop which plays a particular role in nutrition and health of people. A most important viticultural region of Iran is Abhar, Zanjan province. Abharcovers one third of grape gardens in Zanjan. Economic attempts of human have been always directed to gain maximum result from minimum efforts and facilities. To promote efficiency has been always of great importance in agricultural units of developing countries such as Iran;because agricultural sector is a part of national economies. To address technical efficiency of viticulturists in Abhar, Iran and its effective factors, a documentary survey was used. Participants included viticulturists of Abhar. Sample size was 148 determined by Cochran formula and samples were selected randomly. Required information was collected by an author-developed questionnaire. To estimate production function, Douglas and Translog functions were used. Results showed that variables including garden age, viticulture experience positively, and water resource, educational level of viticulturists, crop insurance, and participating in promotional training courses negatively influence on efficiency. Mean, minimum and maximum efficiency of viticulturistswere 78.94, 11.04 and 94.89, respectively.
 
Publisher Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
 
Date 2016-05-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/45
10.15520/jassh2445
 
Source Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities; Vol 2 No 4 (2016)
2395-6542
10.15520/jassh24
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/45/48
 
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