, and animal power, government subsidies encouraged the use of fertilizer and machines. Since productivity growth arises … from technical change, Brazil's drive to modernize its agricultural sector should improve agricultural productivity …. However, inefficient production practices arising from subsidies can slow multifactor productivity growth. Recent removal of …

improved rice varieties and its indirect effect on productivity with focus of the rural radio in Burkina Faso. The econometrics … and increase rice farmer productivity. …

it inhibits adoption of modern technologies that have the capacity to enhance productivity of smallholder farms. Hence …, farm productivity and agricultural transformation is stifled, leaving smallholder famers in grinding poverty. Improved … productivity in Kenya, using Propensity Score Matching technique. It finds that participation in ICT-based MIS project has a …

productivity. This necessited this study on innovation adoption, farm productivity and poverty status of rural smallholder farm … households in South-Eastern Nigeria. This was premised on the fact that increasing agricultural productivity can increase food … and positive impact on farm productivity. Also, the study revealed improved livelihood or better welfare for innovation …

and partial factor productivity measures across time and region for a sample of representative u.s. cotton enterprises …. Total factor productivity for u.s. cotton increased only .2% per year between 1974 and 1982 compared to a much higher post …-World-War-II growth rate of about 5%. Partial productivity measures revealed that yield growth was about .6% per year, while total input …

average adoption effect on participants by testing for productivity difference between adopters and non-adopters. Secondly, we … the yield differences, which in both cases are substantial. There is some evidence for greater productivity of the smaller …

Labor productivity is measured for each of 4 selected years for each of four components of personal consumption … commercial employees, and food produced and consumed on farms. The labor productivity estimates include both direct and …

The total factor productivity index for u.s. wheat was 1.5% per year between 1974 and 1983. The conservation tillage … productivity index for u.s. wheat was about 1.1% per year during this time period, or about 75% of the T.F.P. North Dakota and …

This paper examines the impact that publicly funded agricultural research has on productivity in crop production within … production is a significant determinant of total factor productivity (TFP) in the crop sector and, second, that its social rate …