climate variability and volatile commodity prices over the last decade or so. Relationships between productivity and …. Components of farm productivity and profitability are measured over the period 1998 to 2008. Economies of scale and scope are … shown often to be positive contributors to productivity and profitability. However, the main finding is that technical …

The objective of this paper is to review likely trends in key drivers of productivity with a view to suggesting the … rate of productivity growth that is likely to be required to maintain the competitiveness of Australian agriculture both … for achieving this level of productivity performance over the period to 2030.Growth in agricultural productivity has …

extension investment and productivity growth in Australian broadacre agriculture. The results show that public R&D investment … has significantly promoted productivity growth in Australia’s broadacre sector over the past five decades (1953 to 2007 … cent and 0.63 per cent of annual total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the broadacre sector, respectively. The …

The total factor productivity indexes of five key Commonwealth fisheries have been developed using the Fisher index and … stocks. In trend terms, productivity increased over the last decade in most Commonwealth fisheries analysed. These increases … to market conditions. Changes in productivity can provide information regarding the response of fishing fleets to policy …

, multifactor productivity (MFP) growth rate adjusted for economies of scale, and to measure and analyze the growth rate of partial … (input-specific) productivity in the Bahraini Agriculture and Fisheries Sector (primary sector) over the time period 1980 …-2002. A dual cost measure of multifactor productivity growth was developed to obtain a highly interpretable measure of …

Slowing productivity growth in the Australian grains industry has led to calls for increasing investment in rural R … productivity by enhancing uptake of existing innovations. The productivity gains from innovation adoption are likely to depend on …. The relationship between innovative capacity, innovation adoption and productivity is then evaluated. The results suggest …

Improving farm productivity is often touted as essential for the future prospects of Australian agriculture … annual components of productivity of the same group of 223 farms are measured each year for a decade by using a … productivity of these farms. Farms are classed according to the geometric mean of their total factor productivity and the variance …

the hypothesis that slow variety change has offset the positive productivity effects of diversifying the genetic base in … more equitable spatial distribution of modern varieties could support wheat productivity in the Punjab of India …

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the likely economy-wide impacts of agricultural productivity … sectors in the economy. The results indicate that increasing agricultural productivity leads to positive economic benefits …. However, productivity improvements would lead to reduction in agricultural employment, which in turn may affect the real …