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Intraregional Efficiency Of Production Decisions And Interregional Efficiency Of Input Use In Bolivian Agriculture, Stephen C. Hammond
Intraregional Efficiency Of Production Decisions And Interregional Efficiency Of Input Use In Bolivian Agriculture, Stephen C. Hammond
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The main objectives of this study were to analyze the efficiency with which Bolivian farmers utilize productive resources as they combine them in crop production and to examine the possibility of interregional resource immobility in the production of agricultural products.
Bolivia was divided into seven distinct production regions called departments. A linear program maximizing model was generated for the major crops produced in each department. Land, labor, irrigation, and capital were the input coefficients used in the models. They produced a net return to management, land, and fixed costs associated with land. The linear program using these coefficients generated the …