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This study applies a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach to analyze total factor productivity, technology, and … advanced- technology and low-technology categories. The Malmquist productivity measures were decomposed into two components … provinces for both technology categories. Technical progress has been the most important factor to Chinese agricultural …
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production technology is used to measure the interactions of technology adoption with time, input factors and output. Second …, linear programming techniques are employed to envelop the optimal level of technology. This procedure is applied to household … assumption that farming technology exhibits region-specific characteristics. Furthermore, there is a disparity of TE across …
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and examine the relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total … growth. For technology capital we construct two indexes reflecting national capacities in agricultural research and education …-extension for 87 developing countries. We then correlate technology capital levels with long-term growth rates in agricultural TFP …
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This paper analyses efficiency and productivity changes in 12 broad segments of food manufacturing industries during pre and post liberalisation periods, covering a period of two decades, from 1980-1981 to 2001-2002. The nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach is used to compute...
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This paper analyses efficiency and productivity changes in 12 broad segments of food manufacturing industries during pre and post liberalisation periods, covering a period of two decades, from 1980-1981 to 2001-2002. The nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach is used to compute...
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Agriculture in Ethiopia is changing. New players, relationships, and policies are influencing the ways in which information and knowledge are used by smallholders. While this growing complexity suggests opportunities for Ethiopian smallholders, too little is known about how these opportunities...
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Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation's agricultural research system, including Federal-State public research as well as private-sector research, has been a key driver of this growth. Economic analysis finds strong...
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In this study we investigate the profitability of potato and pineapple enterprises and the technical efficiency and drivers of efficiency among potato farmers, chosen purposively within IAR4D project sites in southwestern Uganda. For enterprise profitability, a non-parametric net crop revenue...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric outputoriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity. The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear...
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