efficiency change has been invariant to the treatment of the undesirable output as input. The average productivity growth is 2 …, the productivity growth is driven by technological change. …

determining farmers' efficiency in Ethiopia are having access to the public extension system, participation in off-farm activities …

boost labor productivity. Some training experiences, such as extension education programs and performing off-farm work, lead … productivity gains; however, training and educational activities such as extension programs and off-farm work do appear capable of …We study the effects of informal labor sharing arrangements and other social interactions on farmers' productivity in a …

The objective of this paper is to review likely trends in key drivers of productivity with a view to suggesting the … rate of productivity growth that is likely to be required to maintain the competitiveness of Australian agriculture both … for achieving this level of productivity performance over the period to 2030.Growth in agricultural productivity has …

further revealed that age, sex and off-farm work activities were significant determinants of technical inefficiencies in …% technically efficient, implying that 33% of maize yield was not realized. The return to scale which measures the productivity …

This paper investigates productivity growth as measured by the Malmquist productivity index (MPI) among a sample of 331 … Kansas farms between the years 1993 and 2011. The MPI index is decomposed to explore the main sources of productivity growth …. Technical change (TC) is found to be the main driver of productivity growth. Previous literature cites relative prices as …

Improving farm productivity is often touted as essential for the future prospects of Australian agriculture … broadacre farming, farm businesses are exposed to greater volatility in productivity. There are only a small proportion of farms … and high variability in productivity or low growth and low variability in productivity. The characteristics of farm …

Enhanced agricultural productivity is the key issue being presently discussed by agricultural stakeholders as being …€™s economy from being oil dependent. This study therefore attempts to isolate factors that drive agricultural crop productivity … land expansion. The share of the female labour is positively associated with productivity suggesting higher productivity of …