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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818544
country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …
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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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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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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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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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Argentina's G20 presidency has emphasized the needs to improve soil management and increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way to achieve an inclusive and resilient food future. While increases in agricultural productivity improve economic welfare and can help address food security...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897805
The agricultural economy plays an irreplaceable and crucial role in ensuring national food security, promoting stable economic growth, and fostering harmonious social development. Agricultural technology innovation (ATI) and rural industrial structure transformation (RIST) are key drivers of...
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