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Table 7 Factors influencing technical efficiency of farms

From: Technical efficiency in milk production in underdeveloped production environment of India*

Variables	Plains		Hills
	β	SE	β	SE
Constant	0.792**	0.317	0.925***	0.168
Education-HH head	−1.82E-02	0.015	5.423E-03	0.010
Age-HH head	−3.06E-03	0.003	−2.54E-03*	0.002
Land holding size	3.574E-03	0.009	8.334E-03	0.023
Herd size	−3.10E-02**	0.013	1.174E-02	0.043
Non-farm income (Y = 1; N = 0)	0.117	0.064	−1.35E-02	0.050
Prop. of output sold	0.291**	0.129	−7.50E-02	0.108
Price received	−1.33E-03	0.015	4.68E-03	0.005
Access to Info. (Y = 1; N = 0)	0.149	0.106	1.47E-02	0.037
R²	0.597		0.398
F-value	1.616		1.572

Significant at ***1%, **5% and *10% levels of significance.

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