its evolution and possible pathways. In addition, farm efficiency may vary across farms and other socio-economic domains …, opening opportunities to improve efficiency and productivity through reallocation of current resources and introducing new …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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