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Frontier Production Functions and Technical Progress: A Study of Teneral Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

Førsund, Finn R.; Hjalmarsson, Lennart - 1977

Technical change in general milk processing is estimated within a homothetic frontier production function allowing neutrally variable scale elasticity. The results show that technical progress is characterized by a rapid increase in optimal scale and a small capital saving bias, increasing the...

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Chapter 72 Total Factor Productivity Growth in Agriculture : The Role of Technological Capital

Dias Avila, Antonio Flavio; Evenson, Robert E. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3769-3822). 2010

In this chapter we compute measures of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for developing countries and then contrast TFP growth with technological capital indexes. In developing these indexes, we incorporate schooling capital to yield two new indexes: Invention-Innovation Capital and...

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Frontier Production Functions and Technical Progress: A Study of Teneral Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

Førsund, Finn R.; Hjalmarsson, Lennart - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1977

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Generalized Farrell Measures of Efficiency: An Application to Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

Førsund, Finn R.; Hjalmarsson, Lennart - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1978

This paper is concerned with the measurement of productive efficiency. Farrell's measures of efficiency are generalized to nonhomogeneous production functions. Several new measures of efficiency have been introduced and applied to the Swedish milk processing industry. The empirical analysis is...

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Productivity and the performance of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean : from the lost decade to the commodity boom

Nin, Alejandro; Falconi, César A.; Ludena, Carlos E.; … - 2015

This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at … performance of agriculture was the result of fast growth in the use of fertilizer, increases in land productivity, and growth in … contributed significantly to the improved performance of agriculture. Observed growth patterns at the country level suggest that …

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Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity growth by farm size

Helfand, Steven M.; Magalhães, Marcelo; Rada, Nicholas E. - 2015

country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …

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Making agricultural value chains more inclusive through technology and innovation

Das Nair, Reena; Landani, Namhla - 2020

Some entry barriers in agricultural and agro-processing value chains, particularly for smallholder farmers and small/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both radical and incremental, ranging...

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Harnessing Digital Technology to Improve Agricultural Productivity?

Subramanian, Arjunan - 2021

Can improving access to mobile extension improve agricultural productivity? Recent evidence suggests both significant and insignificant ways in which SMS-based agricultural information could affect farming outcomes. It is unclear if variations in the programs' design or the methodological...

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Monitoring agricultural productivity for sustainable production and R&D planning

Laborde Debucquet, David; Piñeiro, Valeria - 2018

Argentina’s G20 presidency has emphasized the need to improve soil management and sustainably increase agricultural productivity to achieve an inclusive and resilient food future. While increased agricultural productivity can improve economic welfare and help address food security problems by...

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Agricultural trade reform, reallocation and technical change : evidence from the Canadian Prairies

Brown, W. Mark; Ferguson, Shon; Viju, Crina - 2017

We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new...

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