Research Article
Ecoefficiency of Intensive Agricultural Production and Its Influencing Factors in China: An Application of DEA-Tobit Analysis
Table 1
Summary of inputs and outputs selected in previous studies.
| Researcher | Main concept | Research object | Inputs | Outputs |
| Ray and Ghose (2014) [25] | Production efficiency | Agriculture in India | () Land | () Food grains | () Fertilizers | () Nonfood grains | () Irrigated area | | () Pump sets | | () Tractors | | () Electricity | | () Labor | |
| Ma and Feng (2013) [26] | Efficiency | Agriculture in China | () Labor | () Gross value of agricultural output | () Land | | () Machinery | | () Fertilizer | | () Draft animals | |
| Picazo-Tadeo et al. (2011) [27] | Farming ecoefficiency | Spanish farmers | () Seeds | () Sales | () Nitrogen | () Coupled subsidies | () Phosphorus | () Agrienvironmental payments | () Pesticides | | () Energy | |
| Chih-Hai et al. (2010) [28] | Efficiency | Agriculture in China | () Agricultural labor | () Gross value added of farming | () Agricultural machinery | | () Cultivated land | |
| Nkamleu (2004) [29] | Efficiency | Agriculture in Africa | () Labor | () Aggregated outputs of agricultural production | () Agricultural land | | () Fertilizer | | () Tractors | |
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