information was for a 43-year period (1961-2003); DEA method was used to measure Malquist index of total factor productivity to …This study examined changes in agricultural productivity at Benin in the context of diverse institutional arrangements … using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).A time series data which consists of information on agricultural production and means …

This paper develops a new measure of total factor productivity growth in agricultural production which incorporates … environmental effects. The new measure is called the Total Factor Nutrient-Orientated Productivity (TFNP) Index, and incorporates a … materials balance condition. TFNP measures changes in nutrient-orientated efficiency and can be decomposed into efficiency …

. This paper examined the technical efficiency of 189 crop farms in Northern Ghana using data envelopment analysis (DEA) with … improving crop production and knowledge about the technical efficiency of crop farms is essential in guiding policy decisions … bootstrapping. We found that bias-corrected average technical efficiency of the sample farms is 77.26%. The estimated scale …

We estimate the efficiency of groundwater use in cotton production in the Punjab province of Pakistan. We use a survey … tube-well ownership on groundwater use efficiency. We use data envelopment analysis to compute the technical, scale, cost … and allocative efficiencies for tube-well owners and water buyers relative to a meta-frontier and groupfrontiers. The DEA …

Efficiency has been proven to be an important managerial tool in improving total factor productivity in agriculture … seventy-six Nepalese rice farmers were examined using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) decomposition method. The … inefficiency indices computed by the DEA were then used as the dependent variable in a Tobit (censored) regression model using …

Technical efficiency has been widely studied in the literature, but in its pursuit, many of the inputs used can impact … studies, as conventional inputs. This paper examines the concept of environmental efficiency and how it can be used to …

distance function both with and without pollutant outputs. The environmentally sensitive approach provides higher productivity … the regional levels of technical efficiency. …

estimation is possible of changes in total factor productivity on farms in the different regions. The major findings are that …. Variation in technical efficiency seems to depend on the harshness of the production environment and whether consultancy advice …

) substitution and both farm total factor productivity and size. In the presence of ongoing technical change and its factor bias, the … ‘income effect’ arising from farms’ cost minimizing behaviour enables them to increase productivity by saving inputs or … and become more productive, which provides a new mechanism through which farm heterogeneity in productivity growth can be …

The research in this paper considers the question of the possible sources of total factor productivity (TFP) change in …). Specifically, the research considers the contributions of technological progress and technical efficiency changes to TFP growth … using the Malmquist index based on a decomposition of TFP change. The productivity estimates are compared to financial …