, and animal power, government subsidies encouraged the use of fertilizer and machines. Since productivity growth arises … from technical change, Brazil's drive to modernize its agricultural sector should improve agricultural productivity …. However, inefficient production practices arising from subsidies can slow multifactor productivity growth. Recent removal of …

Investment in R&D has long been regarded as an important source of productivity growth in New Zealand and Australian … public investment in R&D and in productivity growth are reviewed. Investment in R&D has been flat in both countries although … significantly higher than that in New Zealand. Productivity growth is also likely to have been higher. Econometric evidence about …

productivity in organic and conventional agriculture in the period from 1999/2000 to 2006/07. Productivity development is assessed … a conventional counterpart with similar structural features. The study reveals a similar development of productivity in … organic grazing livestock and mixed farms, but the productivity level is still lower compared to their conventional …

Numerous methods for measuring multifactor productivity have been used by economists. This report uses a recently … developed approach, data envlopment analysis, to measure productivity. This method can be used not only to calculate … productivity but also to divide productivity measures into indices that measure technical efficiency and technical change …

improved rice varieties and its indirect effect on productivity with focus of the rural radio in Burkina Faso. The econometrics … and increase rice farmer productivity. …

it inhibits adoption of modern technologies that have the capacity to enhance productivity of smallholder farms. Hence …, farm productivity and agricultural transformation is stifled, leaving smallholder famers in grinding poverty. Improved … productivity in Kenya, using Propensity Score Matching technique. It finds that participation in ICT-based MIS project has a …

productivity. This necessited this study on innovation adoption, farm productivity and poverty status of rural smallholder farm … households in South-Eastern Nigeria. This was premised on the fact that increasing agricultural productivity can increase food … and positive impact on farm productivity. Also, the study revealed improved livelihood or better welfare for innovation …

and partial factor productivity measures across time and region for a sample of representative u.s. cotton enterprises …. Total factor productivity for u.s. cotton increased only .2% per year between 1974 and 1982 compared to a much higher post …-World-War-II growth rate of about 5%. Partial productivity measures revealed that yield growth was about .6% per year, while total input …