Total factor productivity (TFP) growth measures usually focus on a certain direction of optimization and ignore the … data from 19 Chinese provinces over the period of 2004-2017. This research is important as China is the second largest corn …

of agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) change and its components (technical change and technical efficiency … productivity grew at a modest rate of 0.03%, mainly powered by technological progress at 0.03% and a negligible decline in … either progress or regress in productivity performance over time. Investments in research and development (R&D), agricultural …