, and animal power, government subsidies encouraged the use of fertilizer and machines. Since productivity growth arises … from technical change, Brazil's drive to modernize its agricultural sector should improve agricultural productivity …. However, inefficient production practices arising from subsidies can slow multifactor productivity growth. Recent removal of …

Organizations offer employees with opportunities to cultivate their innovativeness and facilitate greater productivity …. In this paper we analyze preconditions for individual productivity of agricultural researchers in Nigeria, measured in … greater individual productivity. The statistically significant random-effect estimates show that there is considerable …

Investment in R&D has long been regarded as an important source of productivity growth in Australian agriculture … productivity growth has remained strong, relative both to other sectors of the Australian economy and to the agricultural sectors … of other countries. Such productivity growth, at a time when the decline in terms of trade facing Australian farmers has …

Investment in R&D has long been regarded as an important source of productivity growth in New Zealand and Australian … public investment in R&D and in productivity growth are reviewed. Investment in R&D has been flat in both countries although … significantly higher than that in New Zealand. Productivity growth is also likely to have been higher. Econometric evidence about …

productivity in organic and conventional agriculture in the period from 1999/2000 to 2006/07. Productivity development is assessed … a conventional counterpart with similar structural features. The study reveals a similar development of productivity in … organic grazing livestock and mixed farms, but the productivity level is still lower compared to their conventional …

Numerous methods for measuring multifactor productivity have been used by economists. This report uses a recently … developed approach, data envlopment analysis, to measure productivity. This method can be used not only to calculate … productivity but also to divide productivity measures into indices that measure technical efficiency and technical change …

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 …

and partial factor productivity measures across time and region for a sample of representative u.s. cotton enterprises …. Total factor productivity for u.s. cotton increased only .2% per year between 1974 and 1982 compared to a much higher post …-World-War-II growth rate of about 5%. Partial productivity measures revealed that yield growth was about .6% per year, while total input …