measure sub-sector productivity growth in agriculture. However, recent developments have enabled us to estimate total factor … productivity (TFP) growth for crops and livestock accounting for input-output allocation. This paper extends previous work on TFP … measurement for livestock into ruminants and non-ruminant productivity measurement, given the differences in productivity growth …

, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using an improved nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP estimates … improved agricultural performance, SSA economies face serious challenges to sustain growth. Among these are the small … contribution of technical change to TFP growth in the past, the large tax burden imposed by remaining distortions, and the …

stochastic frontier approach, and decompose productivity growth into its technical efficiency and technical progress components …. Efforts are made to adjust and augment the available livestock statistics. The results show that growth in TFP and its …

immediate expenditures) and six outputs (corn, soybean, milk, hog, beef, and nonfarm income). Productivity growth was found to … be positive during the period, with an average annual productivity growth of 6.6 percent. However, TFP growth has been … ratio was positively related with higher productivity growth. A higher proportion of hired labor has a negative effect …