@article{Mensah:241854,
      recid = {241854},
      author = {Mensah, Amos and Brummer, Bernhard},
      title = {Drivers of technical efficiency and technology gaps in  Ghana’s mango production sector: A stochastic metafrontier  approach Amos},
      journal = {African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2016},
      number = {311-2016-5651},
      pages = {17},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {Mango production and exports in Ghana have been  increasingly volatile over the past years. After
the  successful take-off of the sector in the early 2000s,  output and international market share
decreased. In this  study, the reasons for the lacklustre performance on the  production side are
considered using cross-country survey  data from Ghana. In particular, technical inefficiencies  and
technology gaps of smallholder mango producers are  analysed. A metafrontier framework allows for
separating  production inefficiencies caused by bad agronomic and  management practices from
technology gaps. The results show  that each production zone requires (a) specific  targeting
programme(s) in order to improve technical  efficiency.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/241854},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.241854},
}