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The objective of this paper was to examine the relationship between farm size and agricultural productivity using data … probably the post market liberalization period (1990s) became characterized by an inverse farm size productivity relationship … the land poor households would possibly raise total output thorough productivity gains. …
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This study examines the relationship between farm size and productivity in U.S. agriculture during 1982-92. A … nonparametric regression method is applied to detect ex-post geographical patterns in changes in farm size and productivity. The … estimations show that (i) in 1982 productivity per acre was high in the East, West, and South, modest in the middle part of the U …
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farm size and per hectare agricultural productivity in India. It was subsequently argued that the higher productivity of …, National Sample Survey data show that small holdings in Indian agriculture still exhibit a higher productivity than large … holdings. This article contributes to the limited literature on farm size and productivity in small land holder's agriculture …
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farm size and per hectare agricultural productivity in India. It was subsequently argued that the higher productivity of …, National Sample Survey data show that small holdings in Indian agriculture still exhibit a higher productivity than large … holdings. This article contributes to the limited literature on farm size and productivity in small land holder's agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114159
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
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Land related investment decisions are shaped by both the formal and informal institutions governing land tenure and acquisition. In the case of agricultural Kikuyu households in Kenya, we show that the inheritance practice of uncertain allocation in conjunction with the principle of equal...
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Under the assumption that the landlord is risk-neutral and the tenant is risk-averse, sharecropping is second-best in that it trades off risk sharing and incentives. Many, however, have reported instances of reverse share tenancy, or sharecropping in which the landlord is considerably poorer...
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Many governments try to stabilize commodity prices based on the widespread belief that households value price stability and that the poor especially benefit from food price stabilization. We derive an exact measure of multivariate price risk aversion and of associated household willingness to...
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production in Kagera, Tanzania, reducing total factor productivity. We also quantify how much this negative effect contributes to … knowledge stock as total factor productivity and the contribution of this negative effect to the decrease in agricultural income …
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This paper examines the performance of food production and productivity in Tanzania since 2000, in relation to post …
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