influential factors affecting technical change and effciency. Two-way fixed effect regressions of efficiency and productivity …This paper investigates productivity growth as measured by the Malmquist productivity index (MPI) among a sample of 331 … Kansas farms between the years 1993 and 2011. The MPI index is decomposed to explore the main sources of productivity growth …

determining farmers' efficiency in Ethiopia are having access to the public extension system, participation in off-farm activities …. Annual technical change between 1999 and 2004 is about one percent while annual efficiency change during the same period is …

compare the efficiency of ethanol production in China and Brazil. To estimate the extent output can be proportionally expanded …

data envelopment analysis (DEA) to calculate technical efficiency (TE), allocative efficiency (AE), and economic efficiency …, Rice Research Verification Program (RRVP) from 2005 to 2011. Efficiency scores for RRVP fields are compared with those … obtained from developing rice producing countries. Economic efficiency scores are also compared across RRVP fields using …

study uses Data Envelopment Analysis to compute input-based technical efficiency measures and energy efficiency of Michigan …-specific efficiency can be improved by adopting greenhouse film types other than double layer poly. …

The objective of this paper was to examine the cost efficiency of corn and soybean production for typical farms … involved in the cash crop agri benchmark network. Using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach, efficiency indices were …, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, and South Africa. Average technical efficiency was 0 …

The relationship between trade and productivity has not been established theoretically. Some researchers have indeed … found some, if not complete, support for the view that increasing openness has a positive impact on productivity. This study …

agricultural productivity in Sahel. I first estimate a Malmquist productivity index and its efficiency and technical change … agricultural productivity. It appears that agricultural performance has been disastrous in many Sahelian countries from 1970 to …

The goal of this study is to empirically evaluate the extent to which agricultural productivity estimates are affected … interaction of climate variability and agricultural productivity. Although, different methodologies have been developed to study …

We measure Malmquist index of total factor productivity (TFP) changes in the agricultural sector of Brazil and … Argentina during 1971-2002. The TFP change index is further decomposed into efficiency change and technical change. We then … efficiency and technical change accelerated in Brazilian agriculture, where as Argentinean agriculture experienced a negative …