large number of low‐efficiency, small‐scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps … between backyard, small‐scale, medium‐scale and large‐scale dairy farms in China over the period between 2004 and 2008 … in productivity, and the productivity difference is explained by technology and technical efficiency. Practical …

farm production in a province of China. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis uses panel data for the years 2004 … force is 45, after which efficiency declines. Practical implications – Aging of China's rural labor force may affect … efficiency and productivity in crop production. Agricultural policies may need to pay more attention to the aging of the …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces of China's recent rapid economic growth and … order to investigate regional productivity performances of Chinese provinces over the period 1994‐2006. Findings – Despite … the general concern of widening regional inequalities in China, the findings show a striking trend of convergence among …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the technical efficiency of wheat and paddy rice processing in China … efficiency. Studies on China's technical efficiency of flour and rice processing are scarce. This paper fills this gap. Design …/methodology/approach – With a unique set of firm‐level survey data collected by China's State Statistical Bureau, this study adopts a stochastic …

Purpose – At the center of apple production province in China, how to increase apple per unit yield and to improve …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the China’s outward FDI efficiency and it determinants in 69 countries … FDI analysis, and then constructing a frontier regression model to assess the China’s outward FDI efficiency and it … determinants in countries along the Belt and Road. Findings Regarding the core gravity parameter estimates, China’s outward FDI was …

Indonesia has been recognized as a country with significant potential in agriculture, not only to be self-sufficient in …, raising agricultural productivity is of paramount importance. To date, most of the existing work on Indonesia's agricultural … productivity growth in Indonesian provinces during 2000-2011 and draws policy implications from such empirical analysis. The paper …

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an up-to-date analysis of the productivity in the agricultural sector within the … states and union territories of India. Despite agriculture’s diminishing role as a share of overall gross domestic product … (GDP) in India, it plays a crucial role by providing a large proportion of jobs to the workforce. Recognising agriculture …

productivity of the firms. This study also examines how this effect differs among Egyptian firms in the agriculture, manufacturing … effective for agriculture than manufacturing and service firms; external knowledge plays a vital role in increasing productivity … external knowledge on the firm productivity are sector-specific; knowledge-workers and relational knowledge are two times more …