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Is the Green Revolution Vanishing? Empirical Evidence from TFP Analysis for Rice

Adlas, J.; Achoth, Lalith - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

A serious concern has been raised recently on the long run sustainability of the productivity effects of Green … ecosystem. However, the changes in physical yield are not true measures of productivity from efficiency perspective. Total … factor productivity (TFP) is a true measure of economic efficiency of any technology impact. The paper addresses the crucial …

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Immigrant Workers and Technological Change in U.S. Agriculture: A Profit Maximization Approach of Induced Innovation

Napasintuwong, Orachos; Emerson, Robert D. - 2006

This paper analyzes changes in U.S. agricultural technology during 1960-1999, emphasizing the role of immigrant workers on farm mechanization. The rates and directions of biased technological change based on the induced innovation theory are compared before and after the passage of the...

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A New Measure of the Producer Welfare Effects of Technological Change

Bullock, David S. - 2011

It is well recognized that the statistical reliability of the conventional method of estimating the effects of technological change on producer welfare is often quite poor. I present a method that enhances the statistical reliability of such estimates. I emphasize that when measuring the welfare...

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Scarcity and Growth in the New Millennium: Summary

Simpson, R. David; Toman, Michael A.; Ayres, Robert U. - 2004

In their 1963 classic Scarcity and Growth Howard Barnett and Chandler Morse argued that resource scarcity did not threaten economic growth. A second investigation in the late 1970s, Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered, reached largely the same conclusion. The 25 years since that work was published...

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TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN MEAT AND POULTRY-PACKING AND PROCESSING

Lambert, David K. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 26 (1994) 02

slaughter and processing. There has been a greater increase in total factor productivity in poultry than in the red meats …

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Are modern varieties always better? An economic analysis of maize varietal selection

Reimer, Jeffrey; Fisher, Monica - In: African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 09 (2014) 4

Numerous high-yielding modern maize varieties have been developed for Malawi. However, their performance and returns when managed under real-world conditions are generally unknown. We have used new cross section data to generate insights into the performance of these maize varieties. We first...

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A CONTRIBUIÇÃO DAS UNIVERSIDADES PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA AGRICULTURA NO BRASIL

Teixeira, Erly Cardoso; Clemente, Felippe; Braga, … - In: Revista de Economia e Agronegocio / Brazilian Review of … 11 (2013) 1

The universities main contributions to the development of Brazilian agribusiness are human capital formation and technology generation. High-quality professionals trained in universities are allocated to research, teaching, extension and as managers in the various links of the agribusiness...

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Agrupaciones de innovaciones en la difusión de innovaciones tecnológicas radicales y política económica: Conceptualización y evidencia en la citricultura valenciana

BONO, JUAN R. GALLEGO - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2000) 188

El doble objetivo de este artículo es contribuir al conocimiento del proceso de adopcióndifusión de innovaciones tecnológicas radicales en la agricultura para informar el diseño de una política tecnológica que estimule dicho proceso. Con este fin, se construye un enfoque evolucionista...

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Dairy productivity growth, efficiency change and technological progress in Victoria

Karanja, Francis; Gilmour, Daniel; Fraser, Iain - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012

The research in this paper considers the question of the possible sources of total factor productivity (TFP) change in … using the Malmquist index based on a decomposition of TFP change. The productivity estimates are compared to financial …

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Agriculture in the 21st Century with Implications for Colleges of Agriculture

Debertin, David L. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 2002

It's time to take a close look at recent trends agriculture and in rural areas and speculate where these trends might lead. What are the important forces that will shape the future agriculture and rural areas in the 21st century? What are the implications of these forces on the programs that...

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