affect farm-sector productivity The productivity of the farm sector is partly a function of structure …Changes in productivity are usually associated With technology At the firm level, this is a natural way to think about … productivity. However, in aggregate analysis, measures of productivity can change even when technology does not The measures change …

its evolution and possible pathways. In addition, farm efficiency may vary across farms and other socio-economic domains …, opening opportunities to improve efficiency and productivity through reallocation of current resources and introducing new …

.=========================The ultimate goal of this paper has been to measure the impact of human capital on agricultural productivity in Burkina Faso. The … capital increases agricultural productivity of cultures such as millet, peanuts and cotton, but does not increase the … productivity of cultures such as rice, maize and white sorghum. That is partly due to the traditional way of agriculture in Burkina …

farm size, province and farm type and how they are performing relative to other farming age groups. Young Farmer …

has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on farming efficiency have hardly been studied. Productivity … supermarket channels increases farm productivity by 35-38%. Effects on technical efficiency are, however, insignificant …

raise plant-level productivity by about 15 to 20 percent. However, the estimates reveal that efficiency in plants that … 1981-1991, increases about 30 percent upon their entry into foreign markets, while productivity in plants that become only … occasional exporters does not change at all. Hence, the positive impact of exports on productivity for is driven by the large …

This paper investigates productivity growth as measured by the Malmquist productivity index (MPI) among a sample of 331 … Kansas farms between the years 1993 and 2011. The MPI index is decomposed to explore the main sources of productivity growth …. Technical change (TC) is found to be the main driver of productivity growth. Previous literature cites relative prices as …

organizations on the canal improves farmers' productivity and the returns to land as was envisioned during the Irrigation Management …