affect farm-sector productivity The productivity of the farm sector is partly a function of structure …Changes in productivity are usually associated With technology At the firm level, this is a natural way to think about … productivity. However, in aggregate analysis, measures of productivity can change even when technology does not The measures change …

.=========================The ultimate goal of this paper has been to measure the impact of human capital on agricultural productivity in Burkina Faso. The … capital increases agricultural productivity of cultures such as millet, peanuts and cotton, but does not increase the … productivity of cultures such as rice, maize and white sorghum. That is partly due to the traditional way of agriculture in Burkina …

farm size, province and farm type and how they are performing relative to other farming age groups. Young Farmer …

has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on farming efficiency have hardly been studied. Productivity … supermarket channels increases farm productivity by 35-38%. Effects on technical efficiency are, however, insignificant …

raise plant-level productivity by about 15 to 20 percent. However, the estimates reveal that efficiency in plants that … 1981-1991, increases about 30 percent upon their entry into foreign markets, while productivity in plants that become only … occasional exporters does not change at all. Hence, the positive impact of exports on productivity for is driven by the large …

organizations on the canal improves farmers' productivity and the returns to land as was envisioned during the Irrigation Management …

approaches now commonly used in efficiency and productivity analysis: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) where convexity is imposed …

industries. For rural regions innovation can be a key driver of productivity since the success of a single firm can play a major …

Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation … high returns per dollar spent. These returns include benefits not only to the farm sector but also to the food industry and …