This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and … results show that among developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean shows the highest agricultural productivity growth …-constrained countries. Within agriculture, crops and non-ruminant sectors have displayed the strongest growth between 1961 and 2001, and …

productivity (TFP) of cotton to other major crops (wheat, rice, and corn) in China between 1990 and 2015, showing that the TFP … of Bt cotton process in China. To further investigate the decline of TFP in the early stages of Bt cotton adoption, using … aggregate provincial-level data, we implement a TFP decomposition and show that the productivity of GM technology is higher …

The study is devoted to the measurement of productivity and efficiency change in Chinese farming sector over the reform … process in the 1980s and 1990s. Within an output distance function framework, an index of total factor productivity is … that during the more market-oriented reform period in the mid 1980s productivity and technical efficiency increased while …