productivity in organic and conventional agriculture in the period from 1999/2000 to 2006/07. Productivity development is assessed … a conventional counterpart with similar structural features. The study reveals a similar development of productivity in … organic grazing livestock and mixed farms, but the productivity level is still lower compared to their conventional …

economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …

economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …

productivity but also to divide productivity measures into indices that measure technical efficiency and technical change … from improved technology. In this report, relative efficiency measures and multifactor productivity measures are calculated …Numerous methods for measuring multifactor productivity have been used by economists. This report uses a recently …

, 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 …