This paper addresses the issues of technical efficiency, total factor productivity and its convergence for cereal crop … production in Indian agriculture using district level data over twenty-five years from thirteen major states. We estimate a … states. The result from the calculated Malmquist index of total factor productivity (TFP) provides the evidence that …

were 0.694, 0.0261 and 0.0000, respectively. There was no significant difference in the productivity between Fadama and non … Fadama (soko) farmers, while there was a significant difference between the productivity of Fadama and non Fadama (watermelon …

This paper applies the Malmquist productivity index method to measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth in … Vietnamese agriculture using panel data from 60 provinces in Vietnam during 1985-2000 when Vietnam implemented widespread de …-collectivization, trade liberalization, and reformed her agriculture sector. This study indicates that most of the early growth in Vietnamese …