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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 …
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economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …
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productivity but also to divide productivity measures into indices that measure technical efficiency and technical change … from improved technology. In this report, relative efficiency measures and multifactor productivity measures are calculated …Numerous methods for measuring multifactor productivity have been used by economists. This report uses a recently …
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, 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 …
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raise plant-level productivity by about 15 to 20 percent. However, the estimates reveal that efficiency in plants that … 1981-1991, increases about 30 percent upon their entry into foreign markets, while productivity in plants that become only … occasional exporters does not change at all. Hence, the positive impact of exports on productivity for is driven by the large …
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The objective of this paper is to propose an alternative measure of irrigation water efficiency based on the concept of … input- specific technical efficiency, which contracts with measures previously used in the literature. The proposed …-specific estimates of technical and irrigation water efficiency. In addition, a second-stage regression approach is used to identify the …
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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 …
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Labor productivity is measured for each of 4 selected years for each of four components of personal consumption … commercial employees, and food produced and consumed on farms. The labor productivity estimates include both direct and …
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The total factor productivity index for u.s. wheat was 1.5% per year between 1974 and 1983. The conservation tillage … productivity index for u.s. wheat was about 1.1% per year during this time period, or about 75% of the T.F.P. North Dakota and …
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This paper examines the impact that publicly funded agricultural research has on productivity in crop production within … production is a significant determinant of total factor productivity (TFP) in the crop sector and, second, that its social rate …
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