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GENERAL & APPLIED ECONOMICS

Technical efficiency of improved and local variety seed maize farms in Ghana: A meta-frontier analysis

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Article: 2022858 | Received 17 Aug 2020, Accepted 18 Dec 2021, Published online: 07 Jan 2022

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