Agriculture is the largest source of employment in India, and food accounts for about half of consumer expenditures …, and India's overall economy. This analysis uses a computable general equilibrium model with agricultural commodity detail … efficiency gains in agricultural marketing and reduce agricultural input subsidies and import tariffs. More efficient …

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 … stochastic frontier model to analyze technical efficiency after controlling for the district specific and climatic impact in the …