productivity (TFP) of cotton to other major crops (wheat, rice, and corn) in China between 1990 and 2015, showing that the TFP … aggregate provincial-level data, we implement a TFP decomposition and show that the productivity of GM technology is higher …, whereas the technical efficiency of GM technology is lower than that of traditional technologies. Especially, Bt cotton …

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth measures usually focus on a certain direction of optimization and ignore the … progress (0.48%) was the major source of the TFP growth, whereas the importance of the technical efficiency change (0.09%) and … scale efficiency change (-0.01%) was negligible. …

change, technical and allocative efficiency improvement in Chinese agriculture during the reform period (1980-93). The … have had significant impact on technical efficiency but not allocative efficiency. During the second phase reforms which … were supposed to focus on the liberalization of rural markets, technical efficiency improved very little and allocative …