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Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation's agricultural research system, including Federal-State public research as well as private-sector research, has been a key driver of this growth. Economic analysis finds strong...
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productivity (TFP) for 1948 through 2004. American agriculture relies almost entirely on productivity growth to raise output. By …
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.38%. In the last period, namely 1991-2000, TFP decreased. On average, productivity growth increased by less that 3.6% per year …
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(TFP) in the agricultural sector. Results indicate that agricultural output experienced moderate annual growth between 1981 … labour and livestock the least significant. TFP contribution to agricultural output was important in the 1980s, less … important in the 1990s, and became significant again between 2001 and 2007. The findings show that TFP growth was the result of …
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This paper analyses the patterns of productivity and economic growth in the aggregated Kenyan agriculture between 1964 and 1996. In the 1964-1973 period, the average output growth exceeded 4% but stagnated to an average of 1.2% during 1988-1996. Over the whole period, capital was the most...
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This study sheds light on how study specific-characteristics impact mean technical efficiency (MTE) in Nigerian agriculture. Also the paper extracts consensus message about MTE and its drivers in Nigerian agriculture based on studies covering the period 1999-2008. A meta-analysis using truncated...
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