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Title: | Cocoa Production in Ghana: An Application of the Translog Production Function |
Authors: | Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena Akaah, Ishael P. Dadzie, Kofi Q. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Economic Review |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 15-20 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | cocoa Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | Using cross-sectional data collected during a survey of Ghanaian cocoa farmers in 1984, the authors estimate a translog production function for cocoa farming in Ghana. Their findings indicate that cocoa production technology is neither of the Cobb-Douglas nor the CES functional form, nor is the production function homothetic. The authors also found decreasing returns to scale. Bibliogr., notes. |