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riceProdPhil: Rice Production in the Philippines

Description

The riceProdPhil data frame contains annual data collected from 43 smallholder rice producers in the Tarlac region of the Philippines between 1990 and 1997.

Usage

data( riceProdPhil )

Arguments

source

Supplementary files for Coelli et al. (2005), http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa/software/CROB2005.zip

Details

This data set is published as supplement to Coelli et al. (2005). While most variables of this data set were supplied by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), some were calculated by Coelli et al. (2005, see p. 325--326). The survey is described in Pandey et al. (1999).

References

Coelli, T. J., Rao, D. S. P., O'Donnell, C. J., and Battese, G. E. (2005) An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Springer, New York. Pandey, S., Masciat, P., Velasco, L, and Villano, R. (1999) Risk analysis of a rainfed rice production system system in Tarlac, Central Luzon, Philippines, Experimental Agriculture, 35, 225-237.