In Nepal, agricultural technology has been relatively stagnant and farmers have been forced to apply more and more of their traditional inputs to production on the land. Since there are few alternative economic opportunities, it is possible tha t the marginal products of these inputs may be...

In this paper a ray-homothetic production function is used to determine returns to scale for Japanese agriculture for the period 1878 to 1940. The advantage of the ray-homothetic function is that it allows returns to scale to vary with both output and factor intensity. The results show that for...